UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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- Pakistan: The Floods Return
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 20/09/2011
Flooding has returned to Pakistan, forcing people to flee their homes for the second year in a row. A year after his wife died in floodwaters, Obhayo Babar is o...
- Philippines: Sex Strike Brings Peace
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 14/09/2011
Displaced women in two villages on Mindanao Island find an unconventional way to stop their menfolk fighting, clear roads and start rebuilding amid a separatist...
- Libya: Africans at Risk
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 14/09/2011
As the civil war ends in Libya, Sub-Saharan Africans fear recriminations
- Yemeni NGO Wins Nansen Award
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 13/09/2011
The Society for Humanitarian Solidarity wins the 2011 Nansen Refugee Award for helping tens of thousands of refugees and migrants who make the treacherous journ...
- Haiti: Getting Papers
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 09/09/2011
Jackson Emile lives in Leogane, epicentre of Haiti's 2010 earthquake. He lost his father and vital documents. Without these he struggles to keep his land and re...
- Somalia: Help at Home
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 02/09/2011
UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, on a visit to Somalia, urges stepped up assistance to people inside the country.
- Somalia: Guterres in Mogadishu
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 01/09/2011
During a landmark visit, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees calls on the international community to rapidly increase aid to Somalia.
- Kenya: Nubians in Kibera
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 30/08/2011
The Nubians came to Kenya from Sudan more than a century ago to fight for the British. After independence, many became stateless.
- Kenya: New Homes
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 30/08/2011
Thousands of Somali refugees journey to a new home as UNHCR opens a camp in Kenya.
- India: Young and Alone
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 26/08/2011
Ni Ang, 16, scrounges in Delhi's night market to feed herself and her three younger siblings. The children are struggling to survive by themselves in India afte...