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Angela Merkel to receive UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award for protecting refugees at height of Syria crisis
Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe on Migration and Refugees
4 October 2022
Strasbourg
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today that Dr. Angela Merkel, the former Federal Chancellor of Germany, will receive the 2022 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award. Each year, the award – named after the Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen – is given to an...
Human trafficking: Council of Europe experts call on Luxembourg to step up efforts to identify and assist victims
Expert group on human trafficking (GRETA)
4 October 2022
Strasbourg
The Council of Europe’s expert group on human trafficking (GRETA) has urged Luxembourg to make additional efforts to identify and assist victims of trafficking, and to ensure that human trafficking cases are investigated proactively and results in effective, proportionate, and dissuasive...
