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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 forced a...
UNHCR on target to deliver 2,410 tons of aid for Iraqi displaced
Wednesday 3, September 2014 GENEVA, August 22 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency on Friday said a massive aid push for some 500,000 displaced Iraqis was going to plan, with a second airlift of aid to Erbil and more flights due today and tomorrow. The operation...
High seas tragedies leave more than 300 dead on the Mediterranean in past week
Thursday 1, January 1970 GENEVA, August 26 (UNHCR) –More than 300 people have died while trying to make irregular sea crossings from North Africa to Europe in the past week, bringing the death toll this year from sinking vesels on the Mediterranean to almost...
Human Stories
Pizzeria job offers Somali refugee a lifeline to self-reliance
Monday 17, December 2012 MARIBOR, 17 December (UNHCR) – Abubakar skillfully stretches the rounded dough while glancing at the Pepperoni pizza in the beehive oven behind him to check whether the cheese is melting yet. Then, he carefully spreads the fresh tomato sauce...
Learning through giving: student helps asylum-seekers learn Hungarian
Monday 6, August 2012 DEBRECEN, 6 August 2012 (UNHCR) – Twenty-one-year-old Patrícia Vanyó vividly remembers the words of the social worker on her first day in the Debrecen Reception Centre for Asylum-Seekers. “Watch out,” she was told because “once you enter...
A persecuted Iraqi journalist forges a new life in Romania
Wednesday 18, July 2012 TIMISOARA, July 16 (UNHCR) – As a child, Saad* had the dreams that millions of children share – at first he wanted to become a pilot and then a professional football player. But the war in Iraq changed all that and he decided he wanted to tell...