News Archives
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Tackling climate change in eastern Chad
21 Dec 2009Two things that newly arrived aid workers notice pretty quickly in eastern Chad are the lack of water and the sand that seems to get everywhere. With climate change, the situation is likely to get worse – less water and creeping desertification in the semi-arid terrain.
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Nowhere to hide from climate change in Kenyan refugee camp
21 Dec 2009Dulane Jama and his family suffered in silence for three years in a remote corner of eastern Ethiopia before he finally decided to go and look for a safe place to live before they all died.
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UNHCR chief opens international meeting in Geneva on urban refugees
16 Dec 2009UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres on Wednesday opened a two-day international dialogue that will focus on the pressing problems faced by the increasing numbers of refugees and other forcibly displaced people living in cities and towns around the world.
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Some 3,000 Afghan refugees to leave Islamabad slum for new home
11 Dec 2009The UN refugee agency has begun helping some 3,000 Afghan refugees move from a slum in the Pakistani capital to an undeveloped plot of land in a green belt on the edge of the city.
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Days of Activism: Special office in Kenyan refugee camp helps victims of sexual violence
4 Dec 2009In Hagadera, one of three sprawling refugee camps in north-west Kenya’s Dadaab region, there’s a group of women who call themselves “survivors.” They are victims of sexual violence, a scourge which reaches into the overcrowded camps, home to some 270,000 people, mainly Somalis, who have fled their troubled homeland.
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UNHCR welcomes Sri Lankan decision to ease conditions for internally displaced
4 Dec 2009The UN refugee agency on Friday welcomed the Sri Lankan government’s long-awaited decision this week to allow increased freedom of movement for some 135,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) remaining in 20 closed camps in the north of the country.
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UNHCR distributing winter aid to tens of thousands of displaced Pakistanis
30 Nov 2009As temperatures drop in north-west Pakistan, the UN refugee agency has begun to distribute additional relief supplies to some 85,000 internally displaced people (IDP) living in camps. This aid will help the IDPs, gathering some 13,600 families, to cope with the hardships of winter.
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Cooperation between states in the Americas vital to protect refugees in migration flows
26 Nov 2009Cooperation
between states is essential to address the joint challenge of refugee protection and migration in the Americas, the UN refugee agency’s top protection official told delegates at the opening here of a regional conference on the issue. -
UNHCR concerned about children in mixed migration flows through Mexico
23 Nov 2009As more and more people use Mexico as a stepping stone to try and reach North America, the UN refugee agency and its partners have increased their monitoring of this migration flow in a bid to detect people in need of international protection – especially children.
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UNHCR and Rwanda seek enduring solution for protracted refugee situation
21 Nov 2009UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres and Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame agreed here Tuesday to work towards resolving the country’s protracted refugee problem by the end of 2011.