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- Colombia: Giving Women Strength
@australiaforunhcr - 18/11/2010
In the volatile southern Colombian region of Putumayo, forced displacement remains a real and daily threat. Indigenous women are especially vulnerable. A projec...
- Central African Republic: The Forgotten Crisis
@australiaforunhcr - 18/11/2010
On a mission to Central African Republic, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres described the violence and forced displacement in the country as a ...
- Refugees in the Republic of Congo
@australiaforunhcr - 18/11/2010
UNHCR struggles to reach isolated groups of refugees who fled inter-ethnic violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More than 100,000 are sheltering in...
- Chad: Environmental Challenges
@australiaforunhcr - 18/11/2010
They survived the violence in Sudan's Darfur region, but now they are waging a daily battle with the environment. The quarter million Darfuri refugees in easter...
- Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kimoka Returnees
@australiaforunhcr - 18/11/2010
Conflict forced hundreds of thousands of Congolese to flee their homes in North Kivu province in 2007-2008. The villagers of Kimoka are finally returning.
- Greece: Far From Home
@australiaforunhcr - 18/11/2010
Asylum-seekers see Greece as a gateway to Europe, but the reality is quite different.
- Somalia: City of Displaced
@australiaforunhcr - 18/11/2010
As people continue to flee the Somali capital of Mogadishu, a new city is growing to the west.
- Community Technology Access
@australiaforunhcr - 18/11/2010
Microsoft, UNHCR and other partners launched the Community Technology Access programme in 2008 to provide refugees with access to computers.
- Benin: Flood Water
@australiaforunhcr - 18/11/2010
Recent torrential rains flooded two thirds of Benin. Some 700,000 people in the small West African nation have been affected.
