Australia for UNHCR

@australiaforunhcr - 02/10/2014

The Nansen Passport was established after World War I by the League of Nations to give the millions of war refugees official recognition and a chance at a new l...

@australiaforunhcr - 02/10/2014

The Nansen Refugee Award is given by UNHCR to a person or group for outstanding work on behalf of refugees and others who have been forcibly displaced from thei...

@australiaforunhcr - 01/10/2014

The High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, called for more attention and help for African nations dealing with the influx of refugees and displaced p...

@australiaforunhcr - 25/09/2014

"We were all terrified and we fled our houses because of the bombs. Every night we would come and sleep here at the border and then go back to our houses a bit ...

@australiaforunhcr - 24/09/2014

More than 138,000 Syrian Kurd refugees have crossed into Turkey from the north of Syria in the last three days. This is one of the largest refugee influxes into...

@australiaforunhcr - 22/09/2014

Sasha is a baby born in the scarred city of Slaviansk, a baby born in conflict. Andrei is his father and when Aliona, his mother, was 8 months pregnant the cou...

@australiaforunhcr - 19/09/2014

Across Eastern Ukraine, thousands face internal exile, lost homes and jobs and a very uncertain future. Dasha is an orphan from near Donetsk. She fled with fr...

@australiaforunhcr - 18/09/2014

In Eastern Ukraine, officially over 300,000 have left their homes, including Tamara who found herself in exile in her own town. "I didn't mean to cry, but my t...

@australiaforunhcr - 18/09/2014

The heads of UNHCR and the UN Development Programme visited Syrian refugees and joint projects in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. High Commissioner António Guterre...

@australiaforunhcr - 11/09/2014

Syrian refugee Shareef fled to Iraq a year ago to escape the violence in Syria. He opened a bakery, which has done great business. When he heard about a new wav...