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Desperate refugees and migrants in Serbia face freezing temperatures
Serbian authorities, together with UNHCR and partners, step up efforts to extend capacity in emergency shelters for hundreds sleeping rough.
UNHCR: Changes to the Aliens Act would jeopardize the right to asylum
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UNHCR calls for help for refugees facing European winter freeze
The UN Refugee Agency urges governments to do more to help and protect refugees and migrants battling freezing temperatures in Europe.
Human Stories
Generosity of Ukrainians helps displaced face winter cold
Wednesday 18, February 2015 KHARKIV, Ukraine, February 11 (UNHCR) – In a room piled to the ceiling with clothes, a bearded man with a grey ponytail is trying on winter coats. Gennady, an architect and graphic artist in his early fifties, is in...
Photo essay: From Nigerian to “Croatian” in three years
Thursday 5, February...
A safe Romanian pit stop on the road to resettlement
Wednesday 14, January 2015 TIMISOARA, Romania, January 13 (UNHCR) – Ahmed, a 24-year-old Somali, sat in a bus and fidgeted anxiously as it took him and a group of fellow refugees from Timisoara’s Emergency Transit Centre (ETC) on a trip outside...