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Category Archives: Camps
Brings light, security and fuel-efficient cooking to refugees!
UNHCR launched the five-year Light Years Ahead campaign in January 2011, aiming to raise funds to improve the basic cooking and lighting needs of more than 450,000 refugees in seven African countries. To date, the agency has raised US$1.4 million, … Continue reading
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Wet nursing for refugee orphans in Bangladesh
A wet nurse is a woman hired to breast feed and care for another’s child. Wet nurses are hired when the mother is unable, or chooses not to nurse the child herself. Wet-nursed children may be known as “milk-siblings”, and … Continue reading
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‘We were scared’
As supplies arrive, children try to cope with conflict in Pakistan Habiba is one of more 320 girls and boys enrolled in the UNICEF-supported primary school at Yar Hussain. The district government has assigned local teachers to the school, and … Continue reading
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UNICEF’s vaccinations
World Health Day 2009: Gazans still recovering from ill effects of conflict On the eve of World Health Day, 7 April, children and families in the Gaza Strip continue to suffer ill effects from a lack of access to humanitarian … Continue reading
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“Do You See What I See?”
An innovative UNHCR project has given refugee children in Yemen and Namibia the opportunity to document their lives through photography. The result is an amazing collection of photographs that gives a unique insight into the everyday lives of children living … Continue reading
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UN: Congo refugees escaping in many directions
Thousands of refugees are fleeing the Congo for Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda and other locations, including as many as 100,000 who fled an attack by the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army on their northeast Congo town. Refugees are being sent “in several … Continue reading
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Refugee crisis raises Rohingya’s profile
The Rohingya, an Asian subgroup of Muslims descended from seventh century Arab traders, have received little attention or assistance despite having a long history of persecution, says Kitty McKinsey, a spokeswoman for UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The Rohingya long … Continue reading
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Refugee in his own country
Fierce fighting in Pakistan’s border area with Afghanistan could soon drive more than 600,000 people from their homes, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday. Spokesman Ron Redmond said the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees will ramp up … Continue reading
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Greece’s Refugees
The number of irregular migrants and asylum seekers detained last year on Greece’s Lesvos Island after crossing from Turkey more than doubled from 6,147 in 2007 to 13,252, including thousands of children. A rise in the number of arrests – … Continue reading
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