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Hungarian volunteers offer warm welcome for refugees
By: Helen Womack in Budapest, Hungary “Beans and pasta today,” said Andras Rakos, a graduate of the college, which trains social workers like himself as well as Methodist ministers. He is now a social worker at the college. “We do try to have a...
UNHCR is concerned by remarks on refugees in the Czech Republic and calls for tolerance and protection for those in need
Tuesday 20, October 2015 BUDAPEST, October 20, 2015 (UNHCR) – The UN Refugee Agency is very concerned at the recent remarks referring to refugees and migrants attributed to the highest institutional representatives in the Czech Republic. UNHCR...
Address root causes of conflicts – UNHCR
Wednesday 14, September 2016 Bled Strategic Forum: UNHCR calls for a global approach to address root causes of conflicts BLED, Slovenia – The UN Refugee Agency’s Regional Representative for Central Europe, Montserrat Feixas Vihé, has called...
Human Stories
Bureaucracy threatens the dream of enterprising refugees in Bulgaria
SOFIA, Bulgaria, January 8 (UNHCR) – Located beside a busy farmers market in the Krasno Selo quarter of Sofia, the “Persia” beauty salon is a cozy and inviting place where customers can be primped, pampered and groomed with Middle Eastern...
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....