EDF European Development Fund

The European Community, a member of the Common Fund, had never announced its withdrawal from the Fund.

This project was partly funded through money from the European Social Fund.

In 2004, the Territory received 13.75 million from the European Development Fund.

The Agency also awarded mini loans from a revolving loan fund to 36 refugee families near the poverty line.

1997 2003 Consultant for the European Union funded projects on data protection, antidiscrimination law, refugee law, and migration problems.

European Union member States and the European Commission were founding members of the Global Fund to Fight HIV AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

The European Union believed that relief, rehabilitation and development must be closely linked in order to respond to refugee problems.

Since 1992 Poland has taken part in the Council of Europe apos s film fund Euroimages (a fund that supports film co productions within the European Union and partially finances the distribution of artistic European films).

They include, inter alia, the World Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund, the Bank's Community Development Carbon Fund, and the Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

The NGO Refugee Education Trust (RET) works with UNHCR to promote the right of adolescents to education, through advocacy and fund raising.

14. International funding for torture victims is essentially provided by the European Union and the Fund.

The main international donor is the European Commission the Fund is second there are no others.

In Europe, his organization had supported a group of European Red Cross societies in establishing a European Platform on Refugees with a view to the preparation of guidelines and recommendations on refugee issues.

A donor visit to the Tindouf refugee camps was facilitated by WFP, UNHCR and MINURSO from 16 to 19 March 2005 with the participation of 11 donor country representatives, the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Office, the United Nations Children's Fund, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and various NGOs.

87. On the question of reception centres, a distinction should be drawn between foreign nationals applying for refugee status and non European Union workers.

States members of the European Union will continue to make voluntary contributions to the Trust Fund. The European Union invites the Tribunal to formulate and develop precise programmes in the framework of this Fund, in particular programmes aimed at improving witness protection.

Refugee women, refugee children, community development and education

During the biennium 1994 1995, 59 States and the European Commission contributed to the Fund, 16 States and the European Commission providing 96.9 per cent of the total.

The European Union called on all States involved in armed conflicts to protect refugee populations and facilitate access to such populations, and stressed the need to strengthen respect for and implementation of international humanitarian law, refugee law and human rights law.

Activities are funded by the European Commission through its contribution of 24.5 million to the Iraq Trust Fund.

Refugee?

Finally, Europe should transform the ESM into a European Monetary Fund capable of providing policy assessment and advice, as well as financial assistance possibly drawing on European Commission staff.

If its General Fund, of some US 300 million, were divided up over the four million refugees, that would give each refugee 20 cents a day.

Co financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) the ESF federal programme AFG Plus was launched in November 1994.

Regarding the Common Fund for Commodities, he expressed the Group s disappointment at the withdrawal of one important European country.

Meeting the protection needs of refugee women and refugee children

III. REFUGEE SECURITY AND THE CIVILIAN CHARACTER OF REFUGEE CAMPS

23. The European Union was very concerned about the situation of refugee women and children and stressed the need to adapt relief programmes to their requirements.

The construction phase of the 8.6 million European currency units project to improve sewerage, drainage and water supply systems in eight refugee camps in Lebanon commenced.

Special care for refugees structures and independent social services, state agreements to be signed, unescorted minors and underage refugee issues to be included in the 2006 UN General Assembly agenda and financial support for refugee host countries with proper means for appropriate fund allocation

Refugee women.

Refugee registration

Refugee registration.

Refugee law

A refugee?

9. Welcomes the strengthening of ties between New Caledonia and the European Union, and notes the European Development Fund assistance in infrastructural, cultural and human resource developments, including vocational training programmes

Over a three year period, 67 per cent of the borrowing will be repaid from the European Development Fund allotment.

The European Union was also seriously concerned about recent developments in the Great Lakes region, such as the ruthless attack on the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.

Also at the same meeting, representatives of the Commission of the European Community and the Common Fund for Commodities made statements.

Contributions to other multilateral institutions were also identified in four of these national communications (FIN Nordic Development Fund, European Community) (ISL Nordic Environment Finance Corporation) (BEL, NZL International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)).

Europe s Refugee Amnesia

New Refugee Homelands

Iraq s Refugee Crisis

The Refugee Dilemma