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UNHCR promotes innovation and self sufficiency at annual NGO meet
3 Jul 2012 UNHCR will launch an "innovation initiative" to develop new ideas in areas such as mobile phone technology, solar power, fuel-efficient stoves, shelter. -
New homes offer new lives for flood victims in Pakistan
20 Jun 2012 UNHCR and local authorities hand over ownership of 400 new one-room homes to a fishing community in Pakistan left homeless by devastating floods in 2010. -
UNHCR starts flying in aid for 50,000 Sudanese refugees in Upper Nile
19 Jun 2012 The aid being flown in includes kitchen sets, blankets, soap, plastic sheets, sleeping mats, jerry cans, mosquito nets and drilling equipment for wells. -
Millions to mark World Refugee Day as displacement crises persist
13 Jun 2012 UNHCR starts to mark World Refugee Day with an inventive new campaign on dilemmas facing the displaced and a rich programme of events globally. -
DAFI at 20: Two grateful students tell how education helped
7 Jun 2012 More than 6,000 refugees have benefitted from higher education thanks to DAFI scholarships, including Khadra from Somalia and Liberian Shadrach. -
UNHCR and IOM start moving Malian refugees to new camp in Niger
1 Jun 2012 More than 11,500 Malian refugees will move to Tabarebarey camp in Niger. A first convoy this week takes some 500 people with their belongings and livestock. -
UNHCR steps up aid in South Sudan camp as population tops 35,000
25 May 2012 An average of 430 refugees have been arriving daily in Yida in May and, at this rate, the camp population will exceed 40,000 by the end of the month. -
After decades, a journey home for Angolan refugees
18 May 2012 Families that had been living as refugees in Namibia are assisted by UNHCR over the course of a three-day journey back to their homeland. -
Snail farmers make trails in refugee income generation project
14 May 2012 Thirty Ivorian refugees take part in a UNHCR snail farming project at a camp in Liberia. Experts say it's a business with bright commercial prospects.