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UNHCR "Angels" fundraising campaign takes off in Italy
24 Dec 2003 The UN refugee agency has launched a campaign to encourage the Italian public - UNHCR's top private donors - to donate at least 8 euros every month to adopt, assist and protect a refugee family. -
Refugee finds anchor after years adrift
10 Dec 2003 In the first in an occasional series on refugee lives, UNHCR talks to a Congolese refugee woman who has finally found her feet in Sicily after spending four turbulent years in search of safety and stability. -
UNHCR applauds Sri Lanka's move to recognise stateless Tamils
4 Dec 2003 The UN refugee agency is supporting a 10-day programme for some 300,000 stateless Tamils of Indian origin to apply for citizenship in Sri Lanka, where they have lived for generations with little legal protection and basic rights. -
UNHCR mourns loss of award-winning aid worker
6 Oct 2003 The UN refugee agency has expressed grief over the brutal murder of Dr Annalena Tonelli, who received the Nansen Refugee Award earlier this year for her long-time humanitarian work with the Somalis. -
Nansen Award helps Italian aid worker "be a stronger voice for a people who have no voice"
26 Jun 2003 Receiving the Nansen Refugee Award at a Geneva ceremony, Italian humanitarian worker Dr Annalena Tonelli said she hoped the award will help refocus attention on the problems of Somalia, where she has provided health care to the local communities for more than three decades. -
Jolie appeals for aid to help Sri Lanka's recovery
17 Apr 2003 UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has urged the international community to contribute to Sri Lanka's recovery process after meeting with recent returnees, internally displaced people and other victims of the country's 20-year civil war. -
Italian woman wins Nansen Refugee Award for work in Somalia
15 Apr 2003 The UN refugee agency's annual award goes to Annalena Tonelli, an Italian woman who has spent more than three decades helping Somalis fight tuberculosis, AIDS, illiteracy, blindness, malnutrition and female genital mutilation. -
UNHCR in talks on Sri Lankans uprooted by civil war
16 Jan 2003 The UN refugee agency is getting ready to help return home more than 100,000 Sri Lankan Tamils driven from their country by almost two decades of civil war, but officials warn that proper conditions for return have yet to be created. -
$10 million needed to help Sri Lankans go home, says UNHCR
11 Oct 2002 Now that a cease-fire is in effect, the UN refugee agency is appealing for funds to help some 60,000 Sri Lankan families return home with various assistance items and basic infrastructural repairs.