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UNHCR rushes supplies to Nepal earthquake survivors
Monday 27, April 2015 GENEVA, April 27 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency is sending thousands of plastic sheets and solar-powered lamps to people left homeless and without light by the devastating earthquake in Nepal.Saturday’s quake, recorded at 7.8 on...
UNHCR – New Mediterranean boat tragedy may be biggest ever, urgent action is needed now
UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres today expressed his shock at the latest boat capsizing on the Mediterranean, and the hundreds of lives reported to have been lost. As of a short time ago, according to information from the Maltese authorities, only...
Bangladeshi family cooks up success in Hungary – in any language
Monday 13, April 2015 BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 10, 2015 (UNHCR) – Family conversation in the miniscule kitchen above the Bangladeshi restaurant in downtown Budapest sounds more like a UN debate than an exchange among close relatives. “A client has just...
Human Stories
A safe Romanian pit stop on the road to resettlement
Wednesday 14, January 2015 TIMISOARA, Romania, January 13 (UNHCR) – Ahmed, a 24-year-old Somali, sat in a bus and fidgeted anxiously as it took him and a group of fellow refugees from Timisoara’s Emergency Transit Centre (ETC) on a trip outside the...
Bureaucracy threatens the dream of enterprising refugees in Bulgaria
SOFIA, Bulgaria, January 8 (UNHCR) – Located beside a busy farmers market in the Krasno Selo quarter of Sofia, the “Persia” beauty salon is a cozy and inviting place where customers can be primped, pampered and groomed with Middle Eastern hospitality....
Displaced families in Ukraine rely on the kindness of strangers
MARIUPOL, Ukraine, January 5 (UNHCR) – Vladimir, 41, casts an eye around the tiny room his family now calls home. Everything he sees – clothes, three beds, dishes, pots and pans, and a television set that entertains his young son – is a donation from fellow...