Tag: refugees
Syrian refugees rose by 177 percent
UPDATED: The number of people seeking asylum in Norway rose sharply in the first half of 2014, hitting a five-year high. Immigration agency UDI's...
Norway halts flow of Syrian refugees
Refugees from the Syrian civil war have finally started arriving in Norway, but now Norwegian authorities are hesitating to take in more. Many of...
Hopes conference can help South Sudan
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) made a plea for donors to come forward and dig deep, ahead of a United Nations pledging conference for...
Broad support for more Syrian aid
Norway's Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet, Ap) wants to allocate an extra NOK 1 billion (USD 168 million) in aid to the crisis in Syria, because...
Asylum liars to be deported
The Norwegian government has tightened its refugee rules, meaning people who lie about having already sought asylum in other countries will be expelled. They...
State needs more asylum centers
A resurgence of asylum seekers arriving in Norway this year has created a need for as many as 40 new asylum centers around the...
Refugees ‘spied on and threatened’
Refugees in Norway are regularly spied on and threatened by agents of the governments they fled, confirms the acting leader of the counterespionage unit...
Egeland moves to refugee work
Jan Egeland is the next head of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), a large humanitarian organization working to improve displaced persons all over the...
Man indicted for spying on refugees
A 38-year-old man from Sudan has been indicted for allegedly spying on refugees from his homeland, and handing his information over to the Embassy...
Man arrested for spying on refugees
Norway's police intelligence unit PST (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste) has arrested a man from Sudan and charged him with spying against refugees in Norway who fled...
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