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Refugees Evicted outside UNHCR

Refugees Evicted outside UNHCR

After 3 weeks of occupying outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offices in Cape Town, refugees and asylum seekers wanting to leave the country due to xenophobia were evicted by police and law enforcement. Many were arrested.
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Date taken
30 October 2019
Photo by
Ashraf Hendricks
Credit
Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp
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Keywords
Evictions,  Refugees,  UNHCR,  United Nations Refugee Agency

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