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03.10.2012. UNHCR Assistant
High Commissioner for Protection Erika Feller appealed today for
strengthened political will to help the world's more than 42 million
refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people,
amid a recent rise in new humanitarian emergencies in Africa and the
Middle East.
In a speech to the annual meeting of UNHCR's governing Executive
Committee (ExCom), Feller listed drawn-out displacement situations,
insecure settings, difficulties in helping acutely vulnerable people,
and funding shortages as the major current obstacles to quality
protection.
