Australia for UNHCR

@australiaforunhcr - 02/10/2013

While Syria is engulfed in conflict, its neighbours are bearing a brutal burden. Three years of pain and devastation have made Syria the great tragedy of this c...

@australiaforunhcr - 01/10/2013

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres presented Sister Angélique Namaika of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with the prestigious Nansen ...

@australiaforunhcr - 27/09/2013

Syrian refugee Yosra lost most of her hip bone when her home in Damascus was hit by artillery fire. But her deepest pain came from losing her husband in the inc...

@australiaforunhcr - 23/09/2013

Twelve-year-old Dylan fled to northern Iraq with his family for safety. It was very difficult for the boy, who is blind. But his love of music has helped him su...

@australiaforunhcr - 17/09/2013

The 2013 winner of UNHCR`s Nansen Refugee Award is Sister Angelique Namaika, a Congolese nun, who works in the remote north east region of Democratic Republic o...

@australiaforunhcr - 16/09/2013

Lebanon is a small country that has been swamped by hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. There are no refugee camps, so finding a place to stay is difficul...

@australiaforunhcr - 11/09/2013

Ahmad is among a first group of 107 Syrian refugees offered temporary shelter by Germany under a special humanitarian programme. He and his family flew out from...

@australiaforunhcr - 05/09/2013

The number of Syrian refugees passed the 2 million mark earlier this week. They included Hawler, a baby born just three days before she and her family fled to s...

@australiaforunhcr - 04/09/2013

High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, and Executive Director of the World Food Programme, Ertharin Cousin, see the latest influx of Syrian refugees ...

@australiaforunhcr - 04/09/2013

The number of Syrian refugees has passed the two million mark this week. Like Mohamed, who has just registered with his family in Lebanon, they are more than ju...