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UNHCR has welcomed Kenya\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s High Court ruling which stopped the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plans to relocate urban refugees July 30, 2013.\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px solid; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_article_caption\" style=\"margin: 5px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Somalia refugees wait to be screened by United Nations High Commission for Refugees officials at the Dadaab camp in this file photo. UNHCR has welcomed Kenya\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s High Court ruling which stopped the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plans to relocate urban refugees July 30, 2013. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"articlemeta\" style=\"margin: 15px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">By&nbsp;LILLIAN ONYANGO laonyango@ke.nationmedia.com<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\/>Posted&nbsp; Tuesday, July 30&nbsp; 2013&nbsp;at&nbsp; 17:52<\/div>\n<div id=\"article_related_news\" style=\"margin: 24px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 5px 5px 0px; float: left; border-right-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\n<div class=\"articleSummary\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 2px; padding: 4px;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: center; border-bottom-width: 1px; 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There are also large numbers of refugee children attending schools in urban areas whose education would have been compromised had the relocation order been carried out,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the official said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">UNHCR appeared in the petition as a &#8220;friend of the Court&#8221; and provided advice on the applicable international refugee and human rights laws.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">In its ruling, the Court stated that the government did not show that the plans to relocate the refugees would heighten the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s national security.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Ms Lejeune-Kaba said UNHCR hoped the government will implement the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153important constitutional decision\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and move fast to resume legal services that were suspended pending the court process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8220;These include the registration and issuance of documents to refugees and asylum seekers, which are essential for their freedom of movement, access to social and community benefits, as well as their protection against arbitrary arrest,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d read her statement which was posted on the agency\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Currently, Kenya hosts some 600,000 refugees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">The UN has maintained that such a move should be done voluntarily and only when the security situation in the previously war-torn country has sufficiently improved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">The petition filed by legal aid organisation Kituo Cha Sheria contested the legality of the relocation plan in January, and the court ordered the plan suspended pending its decision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Last month, Kenya and Somalia formed a joint task force to supervise the voluntary repatriation of Somalia refugees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">The Director of the Office of the Great Lakes Region Ken Vitisia said Kenya would lobby for the return of Somali refugees during the regional leaders&#8217; meeting in Nairobi this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">He said the hosting of Somalia refugees has become an unbearable \u00e2\u20ac\u0153burden\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and that the government would lobby for the region to take a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153common stand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on the issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is in Kenya\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interest that we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have regional conflicts because we are a trading nation. 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