UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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- 2019 Nansen Refugee Award Ceremony Highlights
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 31/10/2019
Azizbek Ashurov, a lawyer, was honoured as the 2019 Nansen Refugee Award Laureate for his outstanding 16-year commitment to ending statelessness in Kyrgyzstan, ...
- Learning together, refugees and host communities in Ethiopia look to improve job prospects
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 29/10/2019
A vocational training program in Ethiopia is offering refugee and host communities shared opportunities to learn, contribute to the country’s economy and become...
- School stokes hopes for the last Afghan schoolgirl in class
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 24/10/2019
Berries drop on students’ heads during lessons at the Khazana Dar primary school in Afghanistan’s Qarabagh district outside Kabul, where their classroom is unde...
- Amina’s flight to safety and a tent life
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 23/10/2019
Over 7500 Syrian refugees have arrived in Iraq in 7 days. Some of the refugees say they witnessed explosion and shelling. They fled for their safety. Informa...
- Teaching valuable lessons, at school and beyond
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 23/10/2019
Zakia is the head teacher at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan. She received her teaching certification through a scholarship provided by Educate A Child (EAC), wh...
- Back from Venezuela, Colombians build shelter in the sand
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 23/10/2019
Yoryanis lived years on the run – first as an internally displaced person inside Colombia, then as a refugee in Venezuela. Now she has fled a dire situation in ...
- Meet Anita and Janet
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 21/10/2019
Anita and Janet are best friends. They both live in Kyaka II refugee settlement in Uganda, where they go to school with support from UNHCR and partner Educate A...
- UNHCR chief applauds Zambia’s openness to refugees
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 19/10/2019
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi thanks Zambia for its generosity and openness in hosting refugees and calls for more development s...
- Floods displace thousands of refugees and host communities in South Sudan
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 18/10/2019
Heavy flooding in South Sudan’s Maban County has displaced nearly two hundred thousand refugees and their hosts. Main roads are submerged in flood waters, makin...
- What does it mean to be stateless?
UC2ZDAoIMGP3m9tAgnniNEYw - 18/10/2019
Everyone has the right to say #IBELONG. Millions of stateless people around the world have no nationality. They are invisible and often aren’t allowed to go to ...
