Australia for UNHCR

@australiaforunhcr - 15/04/2010

Last year, Dadaab refugee camp faced a major humanitarian crisis. We asked for your help, and you gave it. You provided shelter, cooking supplies, medical car...

@australiaforunhcr - 04/03/2010

After years in a bleak no man's land, the remaining residents of the Al Tanf camp are transferred with UNHCR assistance to a more hospitable site inside Syria.

@australiaforunhcr - 04/01/2010

A refugee camp might seem like an unlikely place for a conservation project. But Sherkole in the western highlands of Ethiopia is showing that it can be done. T...

@australiaforunhcr - 04/01/2010

In Yemen the fighting continues in the north. UNHCR reports that the numbers of families fleeing is mounting and camps for the displaced are becoming crowded.

@australiaforunhcr - 23/11/2009

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visits the world's largest refugee camp, overcrowded with 285,000 mostly Somali refugees on the Kenyan border.

@australiaforunhcr - 23/11/2009

Ethiopia's fortunes are closely linked with those of its troubled neighbour, Somalia. It has served as a refuge for tens of thousands of Somalis over the years,...

@australiaforunhcr - 23/11/2009

The combined impact of the economic downturn with the global trends of climate change, urbanisation, increased population and food insecurity on human displacem...

@australiaforunhcr - 23/11/2009

There are more than 1.5 million internally displaced people in Somalia. The constant violence in the south and centre of the country has made the task of helpin...

@australiaforunhcr - 23/11/2009

In Somalia, more than 1.5 million people are internally displaced. Assisting them is both complicated and dangerous.

@australiaforunhcr - 23/11/2009

UNHCR faces a major challenge in finding solutions for newly arrived Somali refugees in the worlds biggest refugee camp, Dadaab, in Kenya.