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Notification, I posted this message when the people of UNHCR told me that they not able to access the internet!!!

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Wanted: PC with net access facility

To whom it may concern,

We are the UNHCR in Lebanon declare that we aren’t able to help the refugees because we aren’t able to use the Internet
 in our mission to help the refugees.

So we ask the donors and any one cares about the refugees to help us to have personal computer and net access facility.

Like this we hope we will be able to help thousands of refugees in Lebanon.

Sincerely

Please, contact us on these addresses:

Website: http://www.un.org.lb/unteam/agencies/unhcr.html

*Notice, they deleted that their website after what I spoke about it!*

For more information please read this message:

Refugees plead for protection
Lebanon urged to respect international norms

Cilina Nasser
Daily Star staff (a dayily local news paper)
Refugees from Somalia, Sudan, Iraq and other
countries, living in constant fear of arrest and
possible deportation by the Lebanese authorities,
demanded Sunday that Lebanon provide them with
protection.
“Every time I go out the house, I’m afraid I might not
return, and when I come back safely I thank God for
that,” said a 29-year-old Sudanese man as he wrapped
his arm around his three-year-old son perched on his
lap.
Like all other refugees interviewed by The Daily Star,
the man preferred not to be named. He was among some
100 refugees at UNESCO Palace on Sunday celebrating
World Refugee Day, organized by the Adhoc Committee
for the Support of Non-Palestinian Refugees and
Asylum-Seekers (ACSRA) and Amnesty International’s
pressure groups here.
A special UN General Assembly resolution that was
unanimously adopted in 2000 designated June 20 of
every year as World Refugee Day.
The Sudanese man and his family fled southern Sudan
for Lebanon in January, 2000, and after four to five
months they were all granted refugee status by the UN
High Commission for Refugees in Beirut.
Nevertheless, the white card in his pocket would not
do him any good here despite its plea to the “Lebanese
civil and military authorities to facilitate for the
holder of this certificate the enjoyment of the status
of refugee until the finding of a permanent solution,”
as written on the card.
Other holders of a similar card were detained in
prisons here for illegally entering the country. One
was a Somali refugee who was imprisoned twice. In both
cases, he was released after one month and given a
chance to leave the country within three months. He
did not.
“We demand the Lebanese government provide safety for
all refugees and coordinate with the UNHCR so we can
be resettled in a third country,” he said.
But Lebanon is not party to the 1951 Convention
relating to the Status of Refugees and therefore does
not consider itself bound by its provisions.
An Iraqi refugee pointed out that refugees did not
enjoy entering Lebanon illegally. “All we want is to
stop feeling afraid,” he said.
International law defines refugees as people who are
unable or unwilling to return to their countries due
to a well-founded fear of persecution.
“In principle, we hope that all states take part in
the (1951 convention),” said an ACSRA official. “But
today we are not demanding that Lebanon sign the
convention. We only want it to provide the minimum
level of (rights), and that is the protection of the
refugees,” said the official, who also preferred not
to identify herself.
One means of protection, she explained, was through
refraining from deporting refugees to countries where
their lives might be endangered.
On May 3, Amnesty International voiced its concern
over press reports on “the deportation of 300 Iraqis
from Lebanon (in April) … to countries where they
would not be protected against forcible return (to
their home country).”
State Prosecutor Adnan Addoum has responded by saying
that the deportation took place in accordance with
Lebanese laws.
The Iraqi refugee told The Daily Star that friends
transported to northern Iraq in April were afraid they
would be extradited to government-controlled areas:
“The Kurdish parties are making deals with the Iraqi
government in which they would exchange Iraqis with
Kurdish detainees in Iraqi prisons,” he explained.
Amnesty International considers Lebanon “still has a
duty to respect standards of customary international
law,” especially Article 14 of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, which provides for the
right of everyone to seek asylum in another country
and “which has been enshrined in the preamble of the
Lebanese Constitution.”
Moreover, Article 26 of the Foreigners’ Entry and
Residence Law provides for the right of any foreigner
“whose life or freedom is in danger for political
reasons” to seek asylum in Lebanon.  

http://www.lebanonwire.com/0206/02062413DS.asp    

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