This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Fatoumata Lejeune-Kaba - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at the press briefing, on 30 July 2013, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
UNHCR welcomes the High Court of Kenya's ruling which upholds the asylum right of urban refugees. The decision, reached on 26 July, relates to the "Petition number 19 of 2013" in which refugees challenged a directive issued by the Government of Kenya in December last year to transfer refugees from urban areas to the refugee camps at Dadaab and Kakuma.
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