Australia for UNHCR

@australiaforunhcr - 02/03/2014

The IKEA Foundation funds the development of new, easy to assemble and durable shelters for refugees. Syrians in northern Iraq have been among the first to try ...

@australiaforunhcr - 25/02/2014

Uganda has once again taken in thousands of South Sudanese refugees. The government's rather unique approach to providing assistance is to give them land to bui...

@australiaforunhcr - 25/02/2014

The International Olympic Committee recently presented 40 sports kits to 20 schools in the South-east of Myanmar. And the children were more than ready to put t...

@australiaforunhcr - 21/02/2014

The Syrian conflict has torn apart innocent people's lives. Little children like Shahad's house was bombed. She lost her brother, sister, and her home. This ter...

@australiaforunhcr - 19/02/2014

Over 1,200 migrants were rescued from inflatable boats off the boast of Lampedusa on the 7th of February by the Italian navy. Young men, women and children, cra...

@australiaforunhcr - 19/02/2014

As of Friday, 14 February, more than 1350 out of an estimated 2500 civilians seeking a safe route to exit the city have left. World Food Programme officials sai...

@australiaforunhcr - 17/02/2014

Teenage activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Malala Yousafzai visits the Jordanian border crossing at Hadalat where hundreds of Syrian refugees cross each day...

@australiaforunhcr - 13/02/2014

UNHCR's High Commissioner António Guterres visits Central African Republic and meets internally displaced people in Bangui airport. He says the international co...

@australiaforunhcr - 12/02/2014

Millions of Syrians are trapped in hard to reach or besieged areas across Syria. On Thursday, 6 February, the parties to the conflict in Syria agreed under UN a...

@australiaforunhcr - 12/02/2014

UNHCR and its partners have been able to start handing out aid items to thousands of people in the South Sudan town of Malakal, where insecurity and widespread ...