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Q&A: Dinka from Down Under keeps spotlight on Sudan
23 Nov 2007 Aguil de'Chut Deng, an ethnic Dinka from South Sudan, made a big impression during UNHCR's annual ExCom meeting, where she presented the official NGO statement. She discusses her new life and work in Australia. -
Australian police brush up on Sudanese refugees
23 Aug 2007 Police officers in the Australian state of Victoria have toured South Sudan to gain insight into the refugees being resettled in their Melbourne suburb. They are using the experience to educate others about the Sudanese. -
Australia grants visa to Iraqi man held on Pacific island for five years
1 Feb 2007 The ordeal of Iraqi refugee Mohammed Faisal is finally over after he was granted an Australian protection visa following five years stuck on a tiny Pacific island and five months in a psychiatric hospital in Brisbane. -
UNHCR and the Norwegian Refugee Council sign agreement to improve the protection of displaced people
29 May 2006 The UN refugee agency and the Norwegian Refugee Council sign an agreement to improve the help they give to the millions of people worldwide who have fled their homes, including those who have not crossed an international border. -
Norway's top royals visit UNHCR headquarters in Geneva
4 Apr 2006 The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, welcomed HM King Harald and HM Queen Sonja of Norway to the UN refugee agency's headquarters in Geneva on Tuesday. They were accompanied by the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. -
Somali refugees pin hopes on camel-herding - in snowy Norway
26 Jan 2006 Camels in frosty Norway? That's a scheme being considered to help Somali refugees - noted camel herders - to make a living and better integrate into a far northern town. -
Surviving against the odds: a taste of life as a refugee
7 Dec 2005 The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, on a visit to Oslo, today launched the Norwegian version of the interactive web-based game "Against all odds," which aims to give young people an insight into what it is like to be a refugee. The first Norwegian pupils to try it gave it a thumbs-up, but Norway's chief immigration official confessed to getting lost in the virtual asylum city. -
Young Australians get Streetwize about refugees
10 Feb 2005 Streetwize Communications has produced "The Other Side", an educational comic strip that draws on real refugee stories to inform young people in Australia about refugee and asylum-seeker issues. -
A new home in Australia for refugees from West Africa's wars
19 Jan 2005 More than a decade on the run from West African wars has ended in smiles and safety on the other side of the world for 376 refugees from Liberia and Sierra Leone. The refugee families - the majority headed by women - arrived in Australia earlier this week.