UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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- Burkina Faso: Appeal for Help
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 06/08/2012
The Mali crisis has driven over 250,000 people into the region. UNHCR chief António Guterres travelled to the largest host country in a call for more support.
- Jordan: First Syrians in New Camp
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 01/08/2012
Za'atri camp in Jordan has received its first residents - Syrian refugees from the Bashabsheh makeshift site. Five hundred have moved in as relocation continues...
- Jordan: New Camp for Syrian Refugees
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 01/08/2012
As the Syrian influx continues, UNHCR is building Za'atri, a new refugee camp in Jordan with a potential capacity to host 113,000 refugees. Information for med...
- Switzerland: Running for Norway
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 26/07/2012
At the London Olympics, Urige Buta will be running for gold in the marathon for his new country: Norway.
- South Sudan: Nearly Home
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 16/07/2012
The returnees board two dozen buses bound for their ancestral home -- which today is a village called Torit. They are for the most part women and children. Some...
- Elena Anaya No One Chooses to be a Refugee
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 11/07/2012
UNHCR's 2012 World Refugee Day global social advocacy campaign, "Dilemmas", aims to help fight intolerance and xenophobia against refugees. UNHCR supporter Juan...
- Barbara Hendricks No One Chooses to be a Refugee
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 11/07/2012
UNHCR's 2012 World Refugee Day global social advocacy campaign, "Dilemmas", aims to help fight intolerance and xenophobia against refugees. UNHCR Honorary Lifet...
- Somalia: Zanzibar Return
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 11/07/2012
It took more than a decade, but finally a group of families return to Zanzibar in Tanzania after living in exile in Mogadishu, Somalia.
- JUANES No one chooses to be a refugee
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 10/07/2012
UNHCR's 2012 World Refugee Day global social advocacy campaign, "Dilemmas", aims to help fight intolerance and xenophobia against refugees. UNHCR supporter Juan...
- Portugal: Sahrawi Cultural Gathering
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 05/07/2012
As part of a confidence-building programme, the UN refugee agency helps organize a meeting in Portugal's Azores Islands on the culture of the divided Sahrawi pe...
