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The IKEA Brighter Lives for Refugees campaign raises €10.8 million for UNHCR
Friday 10, April 2015 UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, thanks IKEA customers and co-workers for supporting ‘Brighter Lives for Refugees’, a global cause-related campaign that raised €10.8 million for refugees this year. The campaign ran in IKEA stores globally from 1...
UNHCR calls for an investigation into the death of two Iraqis at the Bulgaria-Turkey border
Tuesday 31, March 2015 This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today’s Palais des Nations press briefing in Geneva. Further information can be found on the UNHCR websites, www.unhcr.org and www.unhcr.fr, which should also be checked for regular...
Iranian asylum-seeker in Hungary uses sport to heal body and soul
Monday 30, March 2015 VAMOSSZABADI, Hungary, March 30 (UNHCR) – Najib,* a tall, muscular man, sits in the small gym where he exercises, telling a horrifying tale of arbitary punishment against his wife in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Only his passion for...
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Escape from terror leads only to Ukrainian war zone for two desperate Iraqis
Monday 5, January 2015 DEBRECEN, Hungary, January 5 (UNHCR) — When Yusuf* and Omar* met in a smuggler’s van on the outskirts of Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, in October, they thought they were finally on the right track to safety in Western Europe. The...
Once a child refugee, young Afghan becomes confident “Hungarian” man
Friday 2, January 2015 BUDAPEST, Hungary, December 31 (UNHCR) – Sipping coffee in a Budapest café, wearing a stylish black jacket, Dariush Rezai looks very much like other confident 20-year-olds in the room. Like many of them, he speaks in fluent Hungarian...
Hungarian border last hurdle on a long journey from war zones
Thursday 18, December 2014 SUBOTICA, Serbia, December 18 (UNHCR) – Asadullah, a 23-year-old Afghan man, wears a broad smile that belies his circumstances. Shivering in an abandoned brick factory, he waits to be smuggled across the nearby border into Hungary,...