UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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- Nansen Refugee Award - Deminers Clear the Way Home in Lebanon
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 10/10/2008
UNHCR has given this year's Nansen Refugee Award to deminers in southern Lebanon. Chris Clark, head of the UN Mine Action Coordination Centre in southern Lebano...
- UNHCR Chief: World's Poor, Displaced Must Not Be Forgotten
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 10/10/2008
Opening the annual meeting of UNHCR's governing Executive Committee meeting, High Commissioner António Guterres noted that post-Cold War hopes for universal pea...
- Floating Clinic Helps Refugees and Locals
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 09/10/2008
A new floating clinic has been launched by UNHCR to help Colombian refugees and the local Ecuadoran communities they live in. The medical boat will ply the San...
- Afghanistan: The Battle for Water
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 18/09/2008
While conflict continues on several fronts in Afghanistan, a more insidious problem is affecting returnees in northern provinces. Battle lines are being drawn ...
- Burundi: Finding Our Place
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 17/09/2008
Almost 75,000 Burundian refugees have returned home this year. Returning is one thing, finding a home after years of exile is another. In this small and densely...
- Surviving in Iraq
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 16/09/2008
Thousands of displaced families in Iraq are falling through the cracks, unable to obtain assistance because they don't have identity documents. Forced to flee t...
- High Commissioner Visits Georgia and Russia
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 15/09/2008
UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres spent four days in Georgia and the Russian Federation to assess UNHCR's humanitarian operations and to speak ...
- Georgia: UNHCR Aid
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 15/09/2008
The UN refugee responded immediately to the crisis in Georgia by distributing aid and shelter to the displaced. An estimated 158,000 people fled their homes. So...
- Nike Plus Human Race
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 13/08/2008
On 31.08.08 one million people around the world will run a 10 K like no other. The Nike+ Human Race will raise money for refugee children to help them learn an...
- Zimbabweans in South Africa
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 23/07/2008
While Zimbabwe's main political rivals have agreed to hold power-sharing talks, there are continued reports of instability and violence in the country. The flow...
