News Archives
Read the current and archived releases from UNHCR – we provide a wide range of information about the UN Refugee Agency’s activities, including updates from news conference, news by our staff written from some of the world’s most remote locations, etc. At the same time, do not miss what is happening next to you – in Hong Kong. Please visit this page regularly.
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UNHCR airlifts emergency relief items for expelled refugees in Angola
17 Nov 2009The UN refugee agency has airlifted emergency relief items from South Africa to Angola to help alleviate the plight of tens of thousands of Angolans who were expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last month.
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Senior UNHCR official visits Yemen amid continuing displacement
16 Nov 2009One of the UN refugee agency’s seniormost officials is reviewing UNHCR’s operations in Yemen amid a surge in the number of civilians being displaced by fighting in the north of the country.
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The repatriation of 400 Burundians closes a chapter in long-running refugee saga
11 Nov 2009The UN refugee agency on Friday afternoon sent home the final group of long-term Burundian refugees in Tanzania who wanted to return, a landmark operation in ending one of the world’s most protracted refugee situations.
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African Union set to adopt groundbreaking Convention on the internally displaced
6 Nov 2009The African Union (AU) opened a visionary summit meeting here today to address the festering problem of forced displacement on the African Continent.
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UNHCR and the BBC team up to warn people about Gulf of Aden risks
15 Oct 2009UNHCR and its partners have taken to the air waves to warn thousands of people about the dangers they face by crossing the perilous sea waves that separate the Horn of Africa from Yemen.
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Number of refugees from Bhutan resettled from Nepal passes 20,000 mark
15 Oct 2009Eight-year-old Sita Budhathoki this week became the 20,000th refugee from Bhutan to leave Nepal for a new life in a third country, under one of UNHCR’s largest resettlement programmes.
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Music and Care on World Food Day 2009
15 Oct 2009UNCHR: The World must act to stop Food Crisis
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UNHCR advises refugees in Burundi against returning to eastern Congo
12 Oct 2009The UN refugee agency has advised some 2,300 Congolese refugees at a camp in central Burundi to shelve plans to return this week to South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) because of conflict in the area.
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UNHCR chief warns at annual ExCom meet of risks to humanitarian action
28 Sep 2009UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres opened the annual meeting of UNHCR’s government body on Monday with a warning that as global conflicts become more complex – involving state armies, militias and insurgents – humanitarian efforts are increasingly put at risk.
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Iraqi artist departs for new life in the United States
8 Sep 2009Amer Ibrahim* always planned to become an artist when he enrolled at Baghdad University’s Fine Arts Faculty in the mid-1990s, but he never expected to practise his craft as a refugee.