{"id":65,"date":"2024-09-05T03:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bomfr.org\/?p=65"},"modified":"2025-11-05T03:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:56:21","slug":"un-and-germany-refugees-news-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bomfr.org\/index.php\/2024\/09\/05\/un-and-germany-refugees-news-update\/","title":{"rendered":"UN and Germany Refugees News Update!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recent news shows a shift in German refugee policy, with the new government aiming to scale back humanitarian programs, which the UN has criticized, particularly regarding Afghanistan deportations. While the government plans to phase out many programs, a new flight of Afghan refugees has arrived in Germany, and Germany remains a significant donor to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Policy shifts and criticism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Scale back of programs:<\/strong>\u00a0Germany&#8217;s new government is winding down most humanitarian admission programs, a decision criticized by the UN and other organizations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Criticism over deportations:<\/strong>\u00a0The UN has criticized Germany over plans to deport Afghans, with reports of forced returns of individuals with past criminal records.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Syrian repatriation discussions:<\/strong>\u00a0The Chancellor has called for Syrians to voluntarily return to help rebuild their country, as the government has stated they no longer have reason for asylum.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Refugee resettlement and aid&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Ongoing evacuations:<\/strong>\u00a0Despite the scaling back of programs, a fourth flight of Afghan refugees has been permitted to enter Germany from Pakistan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Continued funding for UNHCR:<\/strong>\u00a0Germany continues to be a major donor to the UN Refugee Agency, committing \u20ac120 million for 2022 and playing a role through its national partner, UNO-Fl\u00fcchtlingshilfe.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Support programs:<\/strong>\u00a0Germany has implemented programs like the &#8220;Nest&#8221; program to support refugees who have already resettled by helping with housing, school enrollment, and German language courses.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent news shows a shift in German refugee policy, with the new government aiming to scale back humanitarian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,4,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bamf-news","category-europe-members","category-imigration-news","category-imigration-news-global","category-refugees-news-worldwide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bomfr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bomfr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bomfr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bomfr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bomfr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bomfr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/bomfr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bomfr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bomfr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bomfr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bomfr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}