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UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) funded project:

“Cross Border cooperation between Zakarpattya Region, Hungary, Slovakia organizations involved in refugee protection”.

 

 

 

Background Information: With so many migrants crossing the Zakarpattia region it became a difficult task for authorities to distinguish between refugees and migrants. It was therefore important to travel to all these places and evaluate the situation.

 

Cross Border Cooperation project: Involved visiting border crossings, monitoring the conditions of detained people (migrants, asylum seekers and refugees). Filling in re-admission forms for people who have been returned to Ukraine from the neighboring countries of Poland, Slovakia and Hungary.

 

Further reading:

 

UNHCR Ukraine website: http://www.unhcr.org.ua/

UNHCR Global website: http://www.unhcr.org