'UNHCR not using G4S security contractor'
UNHCR is not using the G4S company to provide security services; it is using a local security company, an agency official said on Monday. Andrew Harper, the UNHCR representative to Jordan, stressed that the UN agency is using a local company called Shark, not the UK-based G4S, which Jordanian activists have criticised for providing security services to Israel. Harper's comments came after a number of Jordanian women and men gathered outside UNDP premises on Sunday, calling on the UN agency to revise its contract with G4S. A statement sent to The Jordan Times by the event's organisers said that five UN agencies — UNDP, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNOPS and WFP — use G4S services, but Harper stressed that they are using a different security company.