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SESRIC hosts expert group meetings on refugee, IDP and stateless person statistics

by admin | May 25, 2021 | Muslim World

SESRIC Headquarters, Ankara, Turkey.

Ankara : The Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC) hosted the Third Global Meeting of the Expert Group on Refugee and Internally Displaced Persons Statistics (EGRIS) at its headquarters in Turkey’s capital Ankara on February 12-14.

Some 81 officials from EGRIS members, including representatives of national statistical offices and other relevant governmental bodies from 19 OIC countries, along with experts from 15 non-OIC member states, and 17 different regional and international organizations attended the meeting.

A meeting on Stateless Persons Statistics was also hosted on February 15, as well as the 10th Regional Workshop on the Experiences and Tools under MED-HIMS (Households International Migration Surveys in the Mediterranean countries – a regional program initiated by European Union) took place at SESRIC headquarters on February 14-16.

—AB/UNA-OIC

Asylum applications surge in Austria

by admin | May 25, 2021 | World

Vienna, (IANS) Austria received about 19,000 asylum applications by the end of April, an increase of almost 30 percent compared with the same period in 2015, according to official figures.

The applications were around half of the yearly maximum of 37,500, Xinhua news agency reported citing the figures issued by the interior ministry on Friday.

About a third of the applications were made by women, while the main countries of origin were Afghanistan, Syria and Iran.

The first four months also saw the assessment of 18,430 asylum claims, with 6,217 — or 45.7 percent — being granted.

Syrians had by far the highest rate of success at 84 percent.

Austria also granted a further 735 instances of subsidiary protection and 490 humanitarian residence permits.