UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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- Mexico: Fleeing Central American Gang Violence
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 18/10/2011
Tens of thousands of people make their way to Mexico on mixed migration routes every year. They include victims of gang violence who need protection.
- India/Sri Lanka: A Ferry Ride Home
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 14/10/2011
For the first time in many years, Sri Lankan refugees are returning home from India by ferry.
- Tanzania: Road to Citizenship
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 12/10/2011
In 2007, UNHCR and the government of Tanzania gave him a choice: return home or become Tanzanian. It was an easy decision for Michael Sheltieri Namoya.
- Philippines: Landless in Mindanao
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 10/10/2011
Displaced by fighting, one indigenous community in the Philippines didn't want food or shelter -- only training to stand up for their rights.
- Pakistan: Flood Relief
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 10/10/2011
Floods in Pakistan have ruined crops and destroyed homes. The rains have ended but displaced people will need help for weeks or months to come.
- Haiti: Living in Fear
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 06/10/2011
UNHCR is working with a grassroots group in Haiti to help displaced women raped since last year's earthquake to get back on their feet.
- Goodwill Ambassador: Angelina Jolie Interviewed
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 06/10/2011
Former BBC journalist Sir Martin Bell interviews Angelina Jolie about her 10 years as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. --- About the United Nations High Commissio...
- ExCom: Angelina Jolie Addresses Annual Meeting
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 05/10/2011
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie, in a speech to UNHCR's governing Executive Committee, appeals for a stepped-up response to the crisis in the Horn of A...
- Nansen Award: Tributes to Jolie and SHS
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 05/10/2011
UNHCR paid tribute in Geneva to 2011 Nansen Award winner, the Society for Humanitarian Solidarity, and to Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie for 10 years servic...
- ExCOM: Guterres Warning
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 05/10/2011
High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres opens the annual meeting of UNHCR's governing committee with a warning that displacement crises are multiplying ...
