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Category Archives: UNHCR
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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UNHCR scales back work in Kenya
The UN refugee agency is continuing to distribute water, food and medical services to famine refugees in the Dadaab camps near the Kenya-Somalia border, but has suspended all non-life-saving activities after the abductions Thursday of two female Spanish aid workers. … Continue reading
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Viet Nam ends stateless limbo for 2,300 former Cambodians
HO CHI MINH CITY, Viet Nam, July 19 (UNHCR) – In a joyous citizenship ceremony, Viet Nam took a ground-breaking step towards closing the last chapter in a 35-year-long statelessness saga for some 2,300 former Cambodians. It is the culmination … Continue reading
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A primary school for girls, funded by Angelina Jolie, opened in Eastern Afghanistan!
There were celebrations in Tangi last week when a new primary school for girls was opened barely 18 months after Angelina Jolie visited the settlement for refugee returnees and expressed concern about the lack of basic education facilities for children. … 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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Refugee-run school
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, January 7 (UNHCR) – The afternoon sky is overcast, dark and heavy with rain clouds. Undaunted by the impending downpour, a few dozen children begin a game of softball in an open field. “This is their hour … Continue reading
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Zimbabwean teenage asylum-seeker learns the high cost of freedom
When 18-year-old Tsitsi Makwiyena looks down at her son Desmond in her arms, she sees not just a one-week-old perfect baby boy, but also the high price she paid to escape her home country of Zimbabwe and start a new … Continue reading
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UNHCR concerned about children in mixed migration flows through Mexico
As more and more people use Mexico as a stepping stone to try and reach North America, the UN refugee agency and its partners have increased their monitoring of this migration flow in a bid to detect people in need … 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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Iraqi refugees follow provincial elections back home
Iraqi refugees in countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Syria await the outcome of provincial elections in their homeland with mixed feelings. Some refugees said they believed that these elections, which come ahead of a general election later this year, … Continue reading
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