Earlier on Wednesday, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said the number of Syrian refugees who had fled the conflict reached a million.

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The long-standing agreement under the UN High Commissioner for Refugees whereby new Tibetan arrivals are sent on to India is still in operation, although numbers have recently declined.

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My next time in the corner (yes, there are some comfortable chairs nearby), I talked with Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the former prime minister of Portugal.

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Also in Hong Kong, South China Morning Post reports a "shock move" by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to cut financial aid from June to some 132 recognised refugees living in Hong Kong.

BBC: China media: Egypt accident anger

The government and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees were well advanced on a sweeping repatriation plan when, in October 2004, the Burmese general they had been dealing with, Khin Nyunt, was deposed as prime minister by more hardline generals.

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Officials of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees also say quietly that the returns from Egypt, insofar as they were prompted by near-destitution, risk violating one of the key principles of refugee law: the idea that people should not be sent back to their home country against their will.

ECONOMIST: Repatriating refugees

In 2012, the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, said that a "criminal network" of smugglers and traffickers was "taking profit of the desperate situation of many Eritreans".

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Angelina Jolie is renowned as an Academy Award winning actress, a UN Goodwill Ambassador, and, as of April 2012, a special envoy to the High Commissioner of the UNHCR, the UN's special agency for refugees, a growing global crisis.

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