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For Iraqi refugees, a sense of community in the American west
12 Dec 2007 Members of Iraq's Chaldean Christian community find safety and opportunities in southern California. -
UNHCR picks up Freedom Award for its global work
8 Nov 2007 The UN refugee agency has received the International Rescue Committee's annual Freedom Award for its contributions to the cause of refugees and human freedom. -
Q&A: Shading tree education gave Lost Boy start in life
19 Oct 2007 John Dau is one of the so-called Lost Boys of Sudan. Dau, who spent years on the run and in refugee camps, was resettled in the United States in 2001. He tells how access to education transformed his life as a refugee. -
Clinton Global Initiative hails ninemillion campaign as a good cause
1 Oct 2007 Former United States President Bill Clinton has called for renewed action to help millions of vulnerable children obtain an education. At the annual summit of his Global Initiative last week, Clinton urged people to support UNHCR's ninemillion campaign which seeks to ensure education for all refugee children by 2010. -
Iraq situation deteriorates further; US gives $30 million to aid education
28 Aug 2007 The UN refugee agency warned on Tuesday that the humanitarian situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate with the number of displaced Iraqis, both inside and outside the country, rising. The US, meanwhile, announced a grant of US$30 million towards educating refugee children in host countries. -
UNHCR helps Congolese refugees return from Mozambique
12 Jun 2007 The UN refugee agency has begun an airlift to repatriate refugees to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from Mozambique. A total 112 refugees were flown on Monday and Tuesday to Kigoma in Tanzania, where they will board a boat and cross Lake Tanganyika to DRC. -
Q&A: Jordanian brings resettled refugee children together on the soccer pitch
4 May 2007 Luma Mufleh grew up in Jordan and emigrated to the United States. In 2004, she started the Fugees, a soccer team for refugee youth in Clarkston, a small town in the southern US state of Georgia. Coaching for six seasons, she has brought together players from diverse backgrounds and worked to find support for her team. -
UNHCR gives refugees in Mozambique the skills to be self-sufficient
2 Jan 2007 From eggs to maize, from vocational training to granting small business loans, the UN refugee agency is trying to give some 5,000 refugees and asylum seekers in Mozambique the tools they need to become self-sufficient. -
On American plains, refugees receive a warm welcome in a cold climate
5 Dec 2006 More than 200 refugees have come to Sioux Falls in the US state of South Dakota this year. Most are reunited with family. Others arrive knowing no one. For all of them, the towering figure of David Jal, his forehead etched with the tribal scars of his native Sudan, is a reassuring presence.