Australia for UNHCR
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- Yemeni Refugees Cross to Horn of Africa
@australiaforunhcr - 23/04/2015
Some 2,029 people have now arrived in Djibouti and Somalia’s Somaliland and Puntland, mostly by boat, over the past few weeks. In Djibouti, most of those arrivi...
- Refugees rescued from Mediterranean arrive in Italy
@australiaforunhcr - 23/04/2015
A baby as young as six months, with severe burns across half of her face, was among traumatized survivors of the latest sea rescue off the coast of southern Ita...
- Syrian Refugee Twin Brothers Survive Mediterranean Shipwreck
@australiaforunhcr - 23/04/2015
Various accidents and shipwrecks over the past weeks in the Mediterranean has seen more than 800 people perish on the open sea. Mohammed and Iyla are 25 year o...
- UNHCR High Commissioner's Comments on Mediterranean Drownings
@australiaforunhcr - 23/04/2015
The High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres expressed shock at news from the Mediterranean that hundreds of people were missing after their boat sank an...
- Survivors of Mediterranean shipwreck wait in anguish in Italy
@australiaforunhcr - 23/04/2015
70 severely burned refugees arrived at Lampedusa Island off the coast of Italy earlier this week. The refugees said that "traffickers held them in Libya befor...
- Surviving the DRC: The World's Most Dangerous Place to be a Woman
@australiaforunhcr - 31/03/2015
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been named the world's worst country to be a woman. Decades of ongoing conflict have torn the country apart and women a...
- Iraq: Yazidi Women Under Attack Part 3/3
@australiaforunhcr - 11/03/2015
Tortured. Electrocuted. Sold into slavery. Every day, hundreds of kidnapped women and girls in Iraq and Syria suffer violence and abuse at the hands of militant...
- Iraq: Yazidi Women Under Attack Part 2/3
@australiaforunhcr - 11/03/2015
Tortured. Electrocuted. Sold into slavery. Every day, hundreds of kidnapped women and girls in Iraq and Syria suffer violence and abuse at the hands of militant...
- Iraq: Yazidi Women Under Attack Part 1/3
@australiaforunhcr - 11/03/2015
Tortured. Electrocuted. Sold into slavery. Every day, hundreds of kidnapped women and girls in Iraq and Syria suffer violence and abuse at the hands of militant...
- Living as a Stateless Person
@australiaforunhcr - 11/03/2015
Stateless people live with an invisible barrier around them. Having no nationality, they cannot enjoy the rights most of us take for granted; work, education, l...
