Stories Archives
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Angelina Jolie visits “dire” refugee settlement on Kenyan border with Somalia
15 Sep 2009UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie on Saturday visited Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee settlement.
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Djibouti : refugees grasp security in their hands with new ID cards
7 Sep 2009After spending 18 of his 24 years in this refugee camp, Somali Mohamed Mahdi heaved a sigh or relief when he was handed an official laminated identity card for the first time.
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Healing the wounds of sexual violence in the Congo
27 Aug 2009Before the fighting started in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Rose* and her family lived quiet, rural, lives. She and her husband had three children, a small piece of land on which to raise them and a stall on the main road from where they would sell fish.
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UNHCR chief visits Dadaab, draws attention to “dramatic” Somali refugee crisis
13 Aug 2009UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, while visiting a sprawling, overcrowded camp complex in north-east Kenya, put a spotlight on the “dramatic” Somali refugee crisis and called on the international community for more help.
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Q&A: A school in the US town of Decatur offers refugees a top education
10 Aug 2009The publically funded International Community School is located in the city of Decatur in Dekalb County, Georgia, one of the largest refugee resettlement areas in the United States.
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Bangladesh: a quiet volunteer helps refugee children shoot for the stars
10 Aug 2009When children in the two refugee camps near here speak of their role models, Bollywood stars and Italian football players take a back seat to a tall, quiet and unassuming man they know as Pero.
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Yacht race veterans raise funds to help survivors of Gulf of Aden crossings
10 Aug 2009Some of the world’s leading long-distance yacht sailors raised more than 2,000 euros at the weekend for the UN refugee agency’s operations to help survivors of the perilous Gulf of Aden crossing from the Horn of Africa to Yemen.
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Angelina Jolie pays third visit to Iraq, appeals for aid for the displaced
29 Jul 2009UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie returned to Iraq on Thursday to offer support to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who remain displaced within their own country.
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War : Creating a lifetime nightmares for children
24 Jul 2009Adults make wars, while children first think it is a game, watch colourful explosions in the distance, draw pictures about it – and then suffer nightmares.
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Q&A: Congolese asylum seeker struggles to survive in Burundi capital
24 Jul 2009Mbila Bilele is one of 10,000 Congolese refugees and asylum-seekers who live in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura. The 34-year-old widow, who has applied for refugee status, and her three children reside in the poverty-stricken suburb of Kinama. Like many other urban refugees and asylum-seekers, she finds it a constant struggle to survive in the capital of one of the world’s poorest countries.