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UNHCR chief urges Europe to help Bulgaria cope with Syrian refugee influx
Friday 22, November 2013 SOFIA, Bulgaria, November 22 (UNHCR) – UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres pledged on Friday to help Bulgaria cope with an influx of Syrian refugees and called on other European Union countries to help shoulder more of...
Syrians face tough conditions in Bulgaria’s makeshift camps
Friday 15, November 2013 SOFIA, Bulgaria, November 15 (UNHCR) – Civil war in the Middle East is reverberating on the borders of the EU as thousands of Syrians seek refuge in Bulgaria, Europe’s poorest country. The Bulgarian government has housed around half its...
Friendship games
Wednesday 13, November 2013 HUMENNE, Slovakia, November 13 (UNHCR) – When refugees arrive in a new home, they sometimes share little in common with their neighbors. But last October, ten Somali boys residing in the UNHCR co-sponsored Emergency Transit Centre (ETC) in...
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 four...
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 in her...