Announcements
June 20 – World Refugee Day
Despite the considerable improvement of the humanitarian situation by many states, the problem of refugees remains one of the most burning both on religious and global scales.
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Oleksandr Feldman: No ‘tradition’ can justify anti-Semitism in modern society | December 24, 2019
ECHR: Ukraine Must Reform Whole-Life Sentence Review Procedure | March 20, 2019
Court: Germany Can Return Refugees to EU Countries with Worse Life Conditions | March 20, 2019
European Parliament Urges to Introduce New Sanction Regime for Human Rights Violation | March 19, 2019
Eurostst: Numbers of Asylum-Seekers from Ukraine Fell in 2018 | March 19, 2019

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EU’s Humanitarian Aid Budget Reaches Record
The European Union allocates the record-breaking budget of 1.6 billion euro aimed at humanitarian assistance in 2019, UNN reports with reference to Polskie Radio.
It is indicated that the biggest part of the budget will be allocated to Syria and to refugees from this Arabic state and Yemen, who are staying in the neighbouring countries. In Africa, the EU will support people in the regions where people have suffered from crisis in South Sudan, Central African Republic, the Lake Chad Basin, and the Democratic Republic of Congo suffering from an Ebola outbreak, as well as in regions suffering from food crisis, like the Sahel.
In Latin America, the EU’s funding will help people who have suffered from the crisis in Venezuela and Colombia. The European Union will continue its assistance to Afghanistan. In Europe, the EU’s humanitarian assistance will be focused on people, who became victims of conflict in Ukraine.
It should be reminded that on December 13, the European Union allocated 4 mln euro of humanitarian aid to the population in the east of Ukraine.
UNN has informed earlier that the European Union is ready to render humanitarian assistance to Indonesia suffering from the tsunami consequences.