Australia for UNHCR
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- Lebanon: Syrian Refugees Out in the Cold
@australiaforunhcr - 22/12/2013
Syrian refugees living in makeshift shelters in north Lebanon, exposed to the cold, are helped by UNHCR. Humanitarian agencies working throughout Lebanon have ...
- Iraq: UNHCR Airlift Into Syria
@australiaforunhcr - 18/12/2013
On the December 17 2013 the UN Refugee Agency airlifted relief items from Iraq into northeast Syria's Al Hassakeh governorate to help more than 50,000 extremely...
- Jordan: Za'atri Caravan Distribution for Syrian Refugees
@australiaforunhcr - 18/12/2013
The Za'atri Refugee Camp has been changing from a predominantly tent city to one made up of prefab homes. UNHCR is making a final push to make sure every family...
- Central African Republic: Forgotten Crisis
@australiaforunhcr - 18/12/2013
The humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic continues to deteriorate with tens of thousands seeking safety, medical aid and shelter from the viol...
- UNHCR operations in northern Iraq: Interview with Ben Farrell
@australiaforunhcr - 16/12/2013
In August 2013 thousands of Syrians crossed into Iraq's Kurdistan region, fleeing from the violence in their homeland. UNHCR's External Relations Officer, Ben F...
- UN Appeals for Syria Operations 2014
@australiaforunhcr - 16/12/2013
Faced with the prospect of a worsening situation inside Syria and growing numbers of refugees in 2014, UN agencies on Monday December 16, 2013 appealed to donor...
- Educate a Refugee Child
@australiaforunhcr - 16/12/2013
57 million girls and boys across the world are not in school. For children that have been driven from their homes by war and violence, education can seem like a...
- Lebanon: Bitter Snow Storm For Syria's Refugees
@australiaforunhcr - 16/12/2013
Storm 'Alexa' arrived in Lebanon on Tuesday bringing strong winds, rain and snow, to the west Bekaa Valley and to villages along the Syrian-Lebanese border leav...
- Faces of Displacement - 2013
@australiaforunhcr - 16/12/2013
New records for population displacement could be broken in 2013, a year when millions more people were forcibly displaced within Syria and elsewhere in the worl...
- Syrian Refugees: Crossing The Border To Jordan
@australiaforunhcr - 16/12/2013
Recently over 1,300 Syrian refugees crossed the border to northeast Jordan in 24 hours. More than half of them were children, and they reached the remote Ruwais...
