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UNHCR seeks support of Portuguese in Switzerland for Angola projects
22 Nov 2006 High Commissioner António Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal, addressed representatives of Switzerland's 167,000-strong Portuguese community in an event designed to raise awareness of UNHCR's work around the world and raise funds for two projects in Angola. -
Swiss discuss local implications of international asylum agenda
13 Oct 2004 Around 200 delegates attended a two-day symposium in Switzerland to take stock of how an international action plan on asylum can be reflected at the local Swiss level. -
Proposed revisions could restrict access to Swiss asylum process, warns UNHCR
27 Jul 2004 The UN refugee agency has written to the Swiss Federal Office for Refugees to raise concerns and offer suggestions about new proposals to modify Swiss asylum law that could restrict access to the asylum process and lead to breaches of the 1951 Refugee Convention. -
Swiss agency helps UNHCR build homes in Montenegro
30 Dec 2003 The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has been working with UNHCR and authorities in Serbia and Montenegro since 1994 to build permanent homes for people uprooted by conflict in the former Yugoslavia. -
Swiss vote could turn genuine refugees away, warns UNHCR
5 Nov 2002 The UN refugee agency has raised serious concerns that an initiative to change Switzerland's asylum law, if voted into law on November 24, could result in a highly restrictive asylum system that rejects genuine refugees.