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Asylum claims from Syria, Iraq and other conflict zones rise in first half 2014
Friday 26, September 2014 GENEVA, September 26 (UNHCR) –A UNHCR report released on Friday shows that the number of people seeking refugee status in industrialized countries continued to climb in the first half of 2014, driven by the wars in Syria and Iraq...
Colombian Women’s Rights Network to Receive World’s Top Refugee Award
Friday 12, September 2014 UNHCR announces 2014 Nansen Refugee Award The 2014 winner of UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award is the Colombian women’s rights group, Red Mariposas de Alas Nuevas Construyendo Futuro – or Butterflies with New Wings Building a...
Number of displaced Ukrainians above half million
Wednesday 3, September 2014 GENEVA, September 2 (UNHCR) – Fighting in eastern Ukraine, in particular around Donetsk, Luhansk and neighbouring towns, is driving more people from their homes and increasing the need for humanitarian aid. The conflict has...
Human Stories
Slovenian authorities turned legal resident into asylum seeker
Tuesday 16, January 2007 LJUBLJANA, January 16 (UNHCR) – Alija Berisha is puzzled and angry. “Why do I have to ask for asylum in my own country? I have a right to live in Slovenia with my family,” the ethnic Kosovan Roma tells a UNHCR visitor....
Uzbek refugees wait in Romania for resettlement: “I went to the bazaar and ended up in a refugee camp”
Tuesday 7, February 2006 TIMISOARA, February 7 (UNHCR) – In the reception centre that has been home to hundreds of Uzbek refugees since they arrived in Romania this summer, 3-month-old Islam is known as “our little prince.” Islam’s mother was...
For Chechens, Poland is not west enough
Monday 5, December 2005 WARSAW, December 5 (UNHCR) – Shema drags her teenage daughter down the stairs together with the wheelchair. They live on the second floor of a reception centre for asylum seekers in Poland. There is no lift, so the tiny, grey-haired lady...