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2024-01-26 14:31
WHO strengthens pre-hospital emergency response for Afghan refugees
TEHRAN - In a joint effort to support enhancing pre-hospital emergency response capacities in provinces hosting Afghan refugee populations, the World Health Organization (WHO), with the contribution of the Government of France, has donated three Hardtop 4x4 ambulances to the National Emergency Management Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran (NEMO).
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2023-08-28 23:17
Taliban says Iran has never used Afghan refugees as political tool
TEHRAN – Spokesman for Taliban’s Ministry of Interior Affairs Abdul Matin Qani has said in a post on X that Iran has never tried to use Afghan refugees to assert political pressure despite having hosted millions of them for decades.
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2023-08-15 18:43
Photo: Bahman Vakhshour
Hanifa providing education for Afghan refugee kids
Hanifa is an unofficial school on the outskirts of the Iranian capital, Tehran. Afghan refugee kids who do not have migration documents can learn to read, write and do mathematics at Hanifa. They are also taught to dream big and envision a bright future for themselves.
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2022-11-12 17:44
Iran still provides services to refugees despite sanctions: UNHCR
TEHRAN – Despite the sanctions and economic pressures, Iran continues its comprehensive policy of providing services to refugees, and this is appreciable, UNHCR’s Officer in Charge, Inna Gladkova, said.
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2022-11-08 18:06
200,000 Afghan refugees eligible to study in Iranian schools
TEHRAN – The Ministry of Interior has announced to the Ministry of Education a list of 200,000 Afghan children who have the conditions to study in Iranian schools.
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2022-10-14 17:42
Inadequate intl. aid makes providing services to refugees impossible
TEHRAN – With the continued allocation of insufficient international aid, it is very difficult and almost impossible for the Islamic Republic to continue providing services to refugees and unauthorized foreign nationals, the Iranian delegation at the 73rd meeting of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner for Refugees, said.
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2022-06-29 17:59
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Significant increase in refugee literacy
TEHRAN – The literacy rate among refugees has increased significantly in recent decades. So that the literacy rate of Afghan immigrants in Iran is higher than the number of literate people in Afghanistan, according to a report published in June by the research center of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis).
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2022-06-27 18:23
Iran’s decent services to refugees are commendable: UNHCR
TEHRAN – Iran’s efforts and activities in the last 40 years have been commendable to refugees, and in the past year, after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, has reached its peak, Maha Kashour, head of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Mashhad, has stated.
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2022-06-25 17:59
UNHCR holds World Refugee Day in Iran for first time since COVID-19
TEHRAN – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, marked World Refugee Day on Wednesday with a series of events across the Islamic Republic of Iran, under the theme of “Whoever, Wherever, Whenever, everyone has the right to seek safety”.
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2022-06-20 17:56
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Four decades of free hosting of refugees
TEHRAN – As the number one destination for Afghan refugees, Iran alone, more than any other European or Western country in times of crisis, has opened its arms to accept asylum seekers from its eastern neighbor.
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2022-05-30 22:19
Taliban delegation to visit Iran
TEHRAN – A Taliban delegation headed by a top immigration official will pay a visit to Iran in the near future to discuss the status of Afghan refugees in Iran.
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2022-05-11 17:01
Germany, Norway ready to support Iran improve refugee services
TEHRAN – The ambassadors of Germany and Norway to Tehran have said the two countries are ready to support Iran in improving services to refugees.
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2022-04-26 21:59
Taliban refugee minister to travel to Tehran
TEHRAN — On Tuesday, the Taliban announced the visit of Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani, the group's Minister of Refugees, to Iran, following tensions on the Iranian-Afghan border.
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2022-04-15 19:00
UNHCR, WFP help refugee children stay in Iranian schools
TEHRAN – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Food Program (WFP) help refugee children living in ran to stay in school and reach for their dreams.
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2022-03-02 19:00
Iran provides free treatment to refugees with rare diseases
TEHRAN – All refugees with rare diseases residing in Iran are provided with free medical services and medication and are exempt from paying treatment costs, the deputy head of the Health Insurance Organization has announced.
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2022-02-11 17:29
Health insurance provided for 170,000 refugees
TEHRAN – Some 170,000 refugees residing in Iran are now covered by health insurance, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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2022-02-06 17:26
Over a million Afghans have migrated to Iran in 4 months: report
TEHRAN – From October through the end of January, more than a million Afghans have set off down one of two major migration routes into Iran, IRNA reported citing migration researchers quoted by The New York Times.
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2022-02-01 18:29
Guterres lauds Iran’s generosity for hosting Afghan refugees
TEHRAN – António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, has praised Iran’s generosity which – for decades – has hosted millions of Afghans in need.
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2022-01-31 17:35
Intl. support for refugees in Iran should be strengthened: UN’s Freijsen
TEHRAN – Ivo Freijsen, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representative in Iran, said that international support for Iran should be strengthened given the presence of millions of refugees in the country.
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2022-01-19 20:00
Spain donates 2.2m doses of vaccine to Afghan refugees in Iran
TEHRAN – A consignment of AstraZeneca vaccine from Spain amounting to 2.2 million doses arrived at Imam Khomeini Airport on Wednesday to help vaccination of Afghan refugees.
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2022-01-17 17:55
UK provides £1m through WFP to support refugees in Iran
TEHRAN – The United Kingdom has made its first-ever contribution equaling £1 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in support of vulnerable Afghan refugees in Iran.
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2021-12-25 19:00
UK supports refugee programs in Iran
TEHRAN – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has said it welcomes the United Kingdom’s donation of GBP 2 million (equivalent to some $2.7 million) to protect and assist Afghans fleeing to Iran seeking safety.
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2021-12-21 18:38
Europe should live up to obligations to refugees: minister
TEHRAN – European organizations should live up to their financial obligations to Afghan refugees in Iran as the country has always been playing host to the refugees, preventing them from migrating to Europe, Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said.
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2021-12-20 17:07
UNHCR thanks Iran for vaccinating Afghan refugees
TEHRAN – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, thanked Health Minister Bahram Einollahi for including Afghan refugees in Iran’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
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2021-12-13 17:05
ICRC supports vaccination of Afghan refugees in Iran
TEHRAN – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has provided 250,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine for Afghan migrants in the eastern provinces of the country.
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2021-12-07 17:38
Italy supports Afghan refugees in Iran
TEHRAN – Italy has contributed €1.5 million to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to support Afghans residing in Iran.
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2021-12-01 17:31
Iran has been generous to host refugees over past decades: UNHCR
TEHRAN –Millions of Afghans have fled their country over the past few decades, and Iran as a neighboring country has been generous to host many of them, said Ivo Freijsen, UNHCR’s Representative in Iran.
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2021-11-28 18:45
Vaccination of Afghan refugees a great achievement for Iran: WHO
TEHRAN – World Health Organization (WHO) representative to Iran Jaffar Hussain has said it is a great achievement for Iran that the government is vaccinating every Afghan refugee going to the vaccination center even before receiving COVID vaccines from Humanitarian Buffer (COVAX).
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2021-11-24 17:16
Protecting refugees is a human rights principle, Iran writes to UNHCR
TEHRAN – The communications and constitution implementation department of the Vice Presidency for Legal Affairs in a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees called for the protection of asylum seekers and refugees in accordance with human rights obligations.
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2021-11-20 18:13
Iran to vaccinate refugees against coronavirus
TEHRAN – Refugees in Iran will be vaccinated in cooperation with international organizations, Mehdi Mahmoudi, the director of the bureau for aliens and foreign immigrants at the Ministry of Interior, has announced.