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Q&A: Alexander McCall Smith’s wish for Darfur
13 Jul 2011The best-selling British novelist Alexander McCall Smith, has become one of 18 acclaimed authors helping to ensure that children living in refugee camps can also enjoy the pleasures of reading. The writers have each contributed a short story to a collection entitled “What You Wish For” and organized by the Book Wish Foundation. All of the proceeds will be donated to UNHCR to build libraries in camps housing more than quarter-of-a-million refugees displaced by the conflict in Darfur.
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1 Child Growing Up in a Camp: Girl seeks better future for peers
27 Jun 2011She waits eagerly in her classroom for the school clock to strike 10. As soon as the bell rings, Sunita runs to her favourite place – the Bhutanese Refugee Children Forum (BRCF), an organization for thousands of children in the refugee camps of Nepal.
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1 Longing to Go Home: Dream of return nears reality for Angolan mother
27 Jun 2011Fifty-year-old Maria Mbuona and six members of her family live in a tumbledown home the size of a garden shed. When it rains, the thatched roof offers no protection and the flimsy walls are scant defence against malaria-carrying mosquitos.
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Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visits Syrian refugees in Turkey
24 Jun 2011UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie travelled on Friday to Turkey’s border with Syria, meeting with many of the refugees who have fled their country in recent weeks.
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Angelina Jolie and UNHCR chief Guterres visit boat people on Italian island
23 Jun 2011Jolie and Guterres visited the Porta d’Europa – a stone gateway on a headland next to the sea where hundreds of boats have arrived with migrants from North Africa, including refugees and asylum-seekers. More than 40,000 people have risked the Mediterranean crossing on overcrowded boats and reached Lampedusa so far this year. A further 1,500 have died in the attempt.
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Pop stars perform in Madrida to raise funds for refugees from Libya
13 Jun 2011MADRID, Spain, June 9 (UNHCR) – Ten thousand pop music fans packed into Madrid’s Palacio Vistalegre recently to listen to stars such as James Blunt, Enrique Iglesias and Kate Ryan and support UNHCR operations to help people forced to flee Libya.
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1 Refugee Without Hope: Canada offers new life to desperate refugee
13 Jun 2011Not many people can remember precisely what they were doing at 9:45 on Tuesday, March 1. Muhammmed Zakaria can: it was the first time in his life he was truly happy, the moment he got a phone call that transformed his life.
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Stranded Liberian refugees return home from Côte d’Ivoire
29 May 2011More than 200 Liberian refugees have ended months of ordeal in strife-torn Côte d’Ivoire by returning home as the UN refugee agency resumed airlifts to Liberia this week.
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Surviving war in Misrata: A Libyan family tell of their ordeal
3 May 2011News Stories, 28 April 2011
TOBRUK, Libya, April 28 (UNHCR) – The first time I met Akram* in Tobruk he was clearly longing to talk to someone about the ordeal he and his family had just been through. The 40-year-old academic, his wife and three young children had just escaped by sea from the western Libyan port city of Misrata, which has been under fierce government siege for weeks.
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Chadians fleeing Libya return to oasis of calm
21 Apr 2011News Stories, 18 April 2011
FAYA, Chad, April 18 (UNHCR) – Thousands of Chadians have returned to northern Chad after fleeing the unrest in neighbouring Libya and braving a long journey through one of the most hostile terrains on earth.