Australia for UNHCR

@australiaforunhcr - 08/09/2014

"My daughter was almost two weeks old when we left, & I was very tired, but we had to flee" Chenar fled to Dohuk a few days after her third child was born, wit...

@australiaforunhcr - 02/09/2014

The UN refugee agency is conducting a massive aid operation to assist some 500,000 Iraqis displaced by conflict in northern Iraq. It includes airlifts, and tran...

@australiaforunhcr - 01/09/2014

Syria’s intensifying refugee crisis will today surpass a record three million people, amid reports of increasingly horrifying conditions inside the country. Ima...

@australiaforunhcr - 28/08/2014

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has donated a truck to the Liberia Ministry of Internal Affairs in the fight against Ebola Virus. The truck will...

@australiaforunhcr - 21/08/2014

In response to the deteriorating situation in northern Iraq, UNHCR is this week launching one of its largest aid pushes aimed at helping close to a half million...

@australiaforunhcr - 21/08/2014

Sarah was born and raised in Hagadera refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. Now 21, she has become a wife and mother without ever setting foot outside the camp. “I fe...

@australiaforunhcr - 21/08/2014

Those whose lives have been uprooted and torn apart by conflict or natural disaster, UNHCR exists to help them. This is our story. The High Commission for Refu...

@australiaforunhcr - 21/08/2014

"Today, on World Humanitarian Day we honour humanitarian workers, we recognise the life-saving work they do day in, day out, helping millions of people in need ...

@australiaforunhcr - 19/08/2014

When militants attacked Sinjar and other towns in northern Iraq in early August, tens of thousands of people fled into the mountains. They included many traumat...

@australiaforunhcr - 18/08/2014

Ian Chappell shares his support for Action Hour 2014 - “With the increasing number of conflicts in the world, World Humanitarian Day is a timely reminder of t...