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Syrian refugee women fight for survival as they head families alone
Tuesday 8, July 2014 AMMAN, Jordan, July 8 (UNHCR) – More than 145,000 Syrian refugee families in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan – or one in four of all households – are headed by women facing a lone fight for survival, a new UNHCR report reveals today. The report...
UNHCR calls for end to detention of asylum-seekers and refugees
Monday 7, July 2014 GENEVA, July 03 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency issued a new global strategy aimed at helping countries move away from the detention of asylum seekers, refugees and stateless people worldwide. Detention of asylum-seekers and...
Sharp rise in Ukrainian displacement, with more than 50,000 internally displaced
Monday 30, June 2014 GENEVA, June 27 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency said on Friday that forced displacement is rising in Ukraine with an estimated 54,400 people internally displaced – 12,000 from Crimea and the rest from the Eastern region. Over the past...
Human Stories
Giving back: Iraqi refugee helps others navigate school system in Hungary
Tuesday 17, April 2012 BUDAPEST, April 17 (UNHCR) – “Iraqi families do not come to Europe to picnic” said Iraqi refugee and father of two Abdulrahman Hassan. “They need a safe place to live and to ensure a future for their children.”...
Refugees in Poland sleeping rough
Wednesday 8, February 2012 WARSAW, February 8 (UNHCR) – Homeless refugees in Poland sleep in shelters, squatted buildings, train stations or even night buses. One third of those granted asylum may be homeless. Zeynab* and her twenty-something son Akhmad spend...
What is your citizenship? Unknown
Thursday 22, December 2011 BUDAPEST, December 22 (UNHCR) – “Mother and father Congolese, the citizenship of the child unknown,” reads the nationality row of the birth certificate of Glody. The three-month-old boy is one of those children born to refugee...