United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Sexual and Gender based Violence against Refugees, Returnees, and Internally Displaced Persons Guidelines for Prevention and Response (2003), p. 42.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2003 Global Refugee Trends , p. 2 (15 June 2004).

Two charities, Help Refugees and L'Auberge des Migrants, on Friday estimated that numbers in the Jungle camp have risen to over 9,000 people the highest ever after a steep increase in arrivals during the summer.

Series Papers produced during the reporting period concerning human rights and state party obligations under international law have included No.44 The Call to Hospitality Catholic Teaching on Refugees (2002) No.46 A Fair Society? Common Wealth for the Common Good Ten Years On (2003) No. 47 War on Iraq Is It Just? (2003) No. 51 The Timor Sea's Oil and Gas What's Fair?

My ministry has worked with the international community, especially UNICEF and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, as well as international donors like the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the World Bank, to develop the strategy we call Reaching All Children with Education (RACE). Through this initiative, we have committed to support all the children and youth displaced from Syria, a country that before the war had achieved near universal enrollment.

Among the most urgently needed steps is to develop the capacity to distinguish quickly and ideally at the border between refugees (who face political persecution) and economic migrants. Germany s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees could set up border outposts to clear baseless asylum claims and send the rejected applicants, in accordance with the Dublin Regulation, back to the first safe country they reached.