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Slovenian centre provides warm welcome after escape ordeal
Tuesday 14, June 2016 “I have to pinch myself because I think I’m dreaming,” says pharmacist Mazen Al-Khatib Al-Masri, whose family is finally safe in Slovenia after fleeing the dangers of Damascus. He still remembers landing on an uninhabited...
A Touch of Magic
Wednesday 8, June 2016 This article is hosted on the global UNHCR website. To read it, please follow this...
UNHCR alarmed at refugee death on Hungary-Serbia border
Monday 6, June 2016 Budapest, June 4, 2016 (UNHCR) – The UN Refugee Agency is alarmed at reports of the death of a Syrian refugee at the Hungary–Serbia border this week. UNHCR is seeking further details after being alerted about the death by the Hungarian...
Human Stories
The approach of winter threatens thousands of displaced Ukrainians
Friday 5, December 2014 KHARKIV, Ukraine, December 4 (UNHCR) – Dozens of shivering and anxious men, women and children cluster in front of a special building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. “I heard they are distributing winter...
Housing programme to help Bosnians rebuild two decades after the war
Wednesday 3, December 2014 USTIKOLINA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 2 (UNHCR)– In 1992, Zenid Guta was only a teenager when war forced him to flee the remote village of Ustikolina, tucked in the Drina Valley of eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. When...
Afghan trainee chef has the recipe to make it in Hungary
Tuesday 28, October 2014 BUDAPEST, Hungary, October 27 (UNHCR) – Six years ago, Zia Karimi was a teenager in Pakistan, his life in turmoil after fleeing persecution and violence in Afghanistan. Now he is a trainee chef in a top Budapest hotel with his...