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- Looking Back: UNHCR's Challenges in 2013
@australiaforunhcr - 30/01/2014
In 2013, conflict and natural disaster forced people to flee their homes in places like Syria, the Philippines, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali and South...
- Syrian refugees: Beyond no man's land into Jordan
@australiaforunhcr - 28/01/2014
In a remote area of north-east Jordan, hundreds of Syrian refugees arrive at an unofficial border point after walking for days and crossing a stretch of no man'...
- South Sudan: Here and Helping
@australiaforunhcr - 22/01/2014
The South Sudanese town of Bor was among the worst hit in the latest violence in the country. These newly displaced people found shelter in an Ethiopian refugee...
- Iraq: Syrian Refugees' Changed Lives
@australiaforunhcr - 20/01/2014
One of the routes from Syria into the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has recently been reopened. Thousands have since crossed into northern Iraq. The journey will cha...
- South Sudan: Born into Conflict
@australiaforunhcr - 19/01/2014
Nyariek was born as conflict returned to the world's newest country, South Sudan. But later that day, tragedy struck when her South Sudanese mother was killed i...
- Iraq: Separated Syrian Families
@australiaforunhcr - 16/01/2014
This the story of Suleiman, one of nearly 60,000 refugees who crossed the border into northern Iraq in August 2013.
- Syria Crisis: Kuwait Responds
@australiaforunhcr - 16/01/2014
In 2013, Kuwait donated US$110 million to the UN refugee agency to alleviate the suffering of Syrian refugees. At a donor's conference in Kuwait City today, Kuw...
- Syria Crisis: Ban Ki moon, the High Commissioner visit Syrian refugees in Iraq
@australiaforunhcr - 14/01/2014
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres and OCHA chief Valerie Amos, travel to northern Iraq to meet re...
- Iraq: Syrian Refugees Cross the Border by Barge
@australiaforunhcr - 13/01/2014
The Simelka-Peshkhabour border crossing between Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq reopened earlier this week, allowing 4,000 Syrian refugees to cross by ba...
- South Sudan: Displaced by Discord
@australiaforunhcr - 12/01/2014
UNHCR is appealing today for US$99 million to help the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the worsening humanitarian crises in South Sudan and the Cen...
