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[Published: Wednesday December 30 2009]
UN refugee agency outlines plans to fight racism
New York, 30 Dec-(ANA)-The United Nations refugee agency has laid out its strategy to combat xenophobia and racism, which it says triggers flight and can jeopardize its work to protect asylum-seekers, refugees and the stateless.
 
“Xenophobia and racism are often at the root of discrimination and intolerance 
against asylum-seekers and refugees,” said Volker Türk, the director of the international protection division of the UNHigh Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
 
Fear of the ‘other’ typically underlies racist and intolerant sentiments and is 
compounded by the current global economic and the deteriorating political and 
social environment in some countries, according to the new guidelines.(ANA)
FA/ANA/30 December 2009---
 
 

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