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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Relief kits help Pakistan’s displaced as they return home or cope with temporary exile
7 Sep 2009Since fleeing shelling in her village in Lower Dir in northwest Pakistan three months ago, Amna* has been living with her family in two rented rooms in Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province and a refuge for many who fled fighting.
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Northern CAR: Isolated families call for basic security – and clean drinking water
27 Aug 2009UNHCR staff have found more than 2,000 displaced civilians living in appalling conditions some 400 kilometres north of Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), sick, hungry and forced to drink water alongside their cows.
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UNHCR uses cinema to spread awareness of sexual violence
17 Aug 2009The cinema has come to this corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for a couple of weeks, and locals are turning up in their droves to watch the nightly fare screened by the UN refugee agency.
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More than 1.4 million internally displaced Ugandans head home since 2006
24 Jul 2009Since relative peace returned to northern Uganda in 2006 after more than two decades of conflict, some 80 percent of the more than 1.8 people in camps for the internally displaced have returned home.
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Integration systems in Central Europe at breaking point
24 Jul 2009Louis* works a 14-hour day in his small fast-food shop in Budapest, but the Iraqi refugee is still struggling to feed his family and pay his rent. Many others like him are also having a hard time in Central European countries, where integration systems are either non-existent or poorly developed.
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UNHCR OUTRAGED AT SHOOTING OF STAFF WORKER IN PAKISTAN
17 Jul 2009The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antˆunio Guterres, voiced his outrage at the shooting death of a UNHCR staff member at a camp outside the northwest Pakistani town of Peshawar today.
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Governments should do more to include the uprooted in their HIV/AIDS strategies
14 Jul 2009UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has said more must be done to ensure governments include refugees and internally displaced people (IDP) in their national strategies for dealing with HIV/AIDS.
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Resettlement of Myanmar refugees from Thailand camps hits 50,000 mark
14 Jul 2009With a look of apprehension on his face, a traditional woven pink bag slung over his shoulder and his wife and baby daughter at his side, a young school teacher today became the 50,000th refugee from Myanmar to be resettled from Thailand under the largest resettlement programme in the world.
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UNHCR striving for a sporting chance for urban refugees in China
14 Jul 2009By Zhang Rong, Song Jing, UNHCR Regional Representation in China
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UNHCR sees education as fundamental for South Sudan reintegration
7 Jul 2009Providing education as fundamental for South Sudan reintegrationchildren with access to education has always been a priority for the UN refugee agency, and in South Sudan UNHCR has been making a difference by ensuring schooling for hundreds of young returnees.