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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR builds new homes for Iraqis left homeless in attack]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR helps northern Iraq town recover from devastating bomb blast by rebuilding shops and homes for the benefit of thousands of civilians.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Involuntary returns to Central Iraq contrary to UNHCR guidelines]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR is concerned about the fact that some European states have begun forcibly returning Iraqi originating from the region of Central Iraq over the last few months. In our guidelines issued last April,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Press Release: Iraqis, Afghans and Somalis top list of asylum seekers in industrialized world]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[GENEVA - Asylum applications in industrialized nations rose by 10 percent in the first half of 2009 compared to the same period last year, according to the UN refugee agency's provisional statistics released...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Iraqi resettlement update]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR has now referred more 80,000 refugees from Iraq to resettlement countries worldwide. The UN refugee agency's resettlement programme for Iraqi refugees began in 2007 and as of October this year 82,500...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie urges the world not to forget Iraqi refugees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie urges the international community not to forget the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees who remain in exile.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR welcomes resumption of Belgium resettlement programme]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday September 2nd, 36 Iraqi refugees were resettled to Belgium from Syria and Jordan. Their arrival marks the resumption of resettlement by Belgium, which was actively involved in resettlement...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 4 Sep 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Iraqi artist departs for new life in the United States]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[After fleeing to Syria from their native Iraq three years ago, artist Amer Ibrahim* and his family are starting a new life in the United States.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A terrible dilemma]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[In an Op Ed carried in newspapers around the world today, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres reflects on the challenges of protecting humanitarian workers as they help the world's most vulnerable people.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR pays tribute to fallen colleagues on World Humanitarian Day]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR staff around the globe mark the first World Humanitarian Day, honouring hundreds of colleagues in humanitarian organizations who have been killed while carrying out their duties.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In 48°C and body armour, UNHCR extends its work in southern Iraq]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR is steadily moving back into Iraq; in the north, to Baghdad in the centre and now to Basrah in the south. Tracey Buckenmeyer, the head of sub-office Basrah, describes the agency's efforts to implement a normal UNHCR operation - or what passes for normal in Iraq.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR to remember sacrifice of colleagues on World Humanitarian Day]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[For the first time, August 19 will be observed as a day to honour all those who have been injured or killed while carrying out their humanitarian work.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Surviving in the city]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A new report, "Surviving in the City," examines the innovative ways in which UNHCR has responded to the massive influx of refugees in urban areas of the Middle East.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie in Baghdad]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Photos and other information on UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie's visit to Baghdad yesterday are now available on our new website: www.unhcr.org. Video will be available later this morning. We...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie pays third visit to Iraq, appeals for aid for the displaced ]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD - UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie returned to Iraq on Thursday to offer support to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who remain displaced within their own country.
During her day-long...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie pays third visit to Iraq, appeals for aid for the displaced]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie returned to Iraq on Thursday to offer support to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who remain displaced within their own country.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Deputy High Commissioner on Iraq mission]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Deputy High Commissioner L. Craig Johnstone is in Iraq today as part of a five-day mission to review UNHCR's operations for returnees, refugees and internally displaced people and for a series of meetings...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New transit centre opens in Slovakia to resettle Palestinians stuck at Iraq border]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A new evacuation transit centre has been opened in Slovakia that will allow for 98 Palestinian refugees to leave a desert camp in Iraq.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR inaugurates residential block for Iraqi refugees in Armenia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR inaugurates "Social House" - a special residential centre with 46 apartments for Iraqi refugees in the southern Armenian village of Darbnik.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Iraqi refugee youngster flown to Monaco from Syria for heart surgery]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[An infant Iraqi refugee flies to Monaco for live-saving surgery under an accord signed recently between UNHCR and the Mediterranean principality.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR annual report shows 42 million people uprooted worldwide]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The number of people forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution worldwide stood at 42 million at the end of last year amid a sharp slowdown in repatriation and more prolonged conflicts resulting in...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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