Refugees will be treated with more attention by journalists

             

On January 31, at the initiative of the High Commissioner for Refugees UN (UNHCR) in Moldova and Indepentent Journalism Center (IJC), was held a joint meeting of UNHCR's implementing partners with a group of students from Advanced School of Journalism .

The participants - representatives of NGOs Ave Copiii, Society for Refugees and Charity Center for Refugees , accompanied by two refugees - have made ​​a review of the work undertaken with the support of UNHCR in Moldova on behalf of asylum seekers, refugees and beneficiaries of humanitarian protection. 

The first meeting in 2012 of the National Committee for Cooperation of the Local Integration of Refugees Project (Phase II)

On January 19th, it was held the first meeting of the National Coordination Committee  of the Local Integration Project in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine (LIP), Phase II. The meeting held at the Refugee Directorate within the Bureau of Migration and Asylum, was attended by representatives of relevant government institutions, NGOs and international organisations.

The purpose of the meeting was the presentation of the LIP activities to be completed during the second phase in the period January 2012 - December 2013 . 

In the opening, Mrs. Catherine Sylvester, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Migration and Asylum, Head of Refugee Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Moldova, said she was optimistic about the second phase of the project, with the conviction that it will perform works including finishing apartment buildings for refugees started in the first phase.