1,000 Lankan refugees in India have returned: UNHCR
August 18, 2010 07:16 am
About 1,000 Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu had gone back to their homeland with the assistance of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from January this year, Dr Montserrat Feixas Vihe, chief of mission, UNHCR, said here on Tuesday.
Delivering a lecture on Protection of refugees in
She said
Stating that 147 countries had signed the convention, the UNHCR’s chief of
mission said every country must have a separate legal frame work for refugees
so that their rights could be ensured even if any government had failed to
address their problems, Times of India reports.