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Congolese nun named winner of world’s top refugee award
Tuesday 17, September 2013 GENEVA, September 17 (UNHCR) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today announces that this year’s Nansen Refugee Prize is being awarded to Sister Angelique Namaika, who works in the remote north east region of...
Bulgaria’s asylum centres bursting at the seams as more Syrian refugees enter Europe
Monday 16, September 2013 SOFIA, Bulgaria, September 17 (UNHCR) – Increasing numbers of Syrians fleeing violence in their homeland are heading for Bulgaria and ending up in overcrowded and “dire” reception centres as the country on the edge of the European...
Giving children a new chance in a new land
Friday 6, September 2013 WARSAW, Poland, 6 September (UNHCR) – As a city of 300,000 people hard on Poland’s border with Belarus, Białystok may be the last place that pre-school teacher Anna Biryło expected to come into contact with curious, vulnerable, and, at times,...
Human Stories
Abused woman granted refugee status in Hungary
Tuesday 1, November 2005 BUDAPEST, November 1 (UNHCR) – Tormented, ostracized, shamed and illiterate Azita may be – but her will is unbroken. This is how she made it to Hungary, where she was granted asylum based on the domestic violence and social...
Hungary sees need for better integration as more refugees stay
Thursday 28, July 2005 BUDAPEST, July 28 (UNHCR) – “I know that I came by my own decision. Hungary did not invite me to come. So I cannot ask for too much, but a little kick would help our integration a lot,” says Arkan Al-Hassani*, an Iraqi refugee...