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UNHCR report shows world’s poorest countries host most refugees
Wednesday 7, January 2015 GENEVA, January 7 (UNHCR) – Wars in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere caused 5.5 million people to become refugees or internally displaced in the first half of 2014, says a UNHCR report released today. Global displacement now stands...
Displaced families in Ukraine rely on the kindness of strangers
MARIUPOL, Ukraine, January 5 (UNHCR) – Vladimir, 41, casts an eye around the tiny room his family now calls home. Everything he sees – clothes, three beds, dishes, pots and pans, and a television set that entertains his young son – is a donation from...
Escape from terror leads only to Ukrainian war zone for two desperate Iraqis
Monday 5, January 2015 DEBRECEN, Hungary, January 5 (UNHCR) — When Yusuf* and Omar* met in a smuggler’s van on the outskirts of Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, in October, they thought they were finally on the right track to safety in Western Europe....
Human Stories
“I’ve never been better in worse times”
Friday 11, January 2008 Ljubljana, January 11 (UNHCR) – Elderly refugees cannot integrate without family support. “I have no home to go back to. My children are refugees, scattered all over the world. I am taking care of my health and waiting for the days...
Schengen will not allow refugees to move west
Thursday 6, December 2007 Budapest, December 6 (UNHCR) – On 21 December, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Slovenia will join the European Union’s Schengen-zone. Within this zone travellers can cross borders without passport controls. It is easy to imagine...
Slovenian authorities turned legal resident into asylum seeker
Tuesday 16, January 2007 LJUBLJANA, January 16 (UNHCR) – Alija Berisha is puzzled and angry. “Why do I have to ask for asylum in my own country? I have a right to live in Slovenia with my family,” the ethnic Kosovan Roma tells a UNHCR visitor....