UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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- South Sudan: Born into Conflict
unhcr - 22/01/2014
Nyariek was born as conflict returned to the world's newest country, South Sudan. But later that day, tragedy struck when her South Sudanese mother was killed i...
- Iraq: Syrian Refugees' Changed Lives
unhcr - 17/01/2014
One of the routes from Syria into the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has recently been reopened. Thousands have since crossed into northern Iraq. The journey will cha...
- Kuwait Responds
unhcr - 16/01/2014
Last year, Kuwait donated US$110 million to the UN refugee agency to alleviate the suffering of Syrian refugees. At a donor's conference in Kuwait City today, K...
- Iraq: Separated Syrian Families
unhcr - 15/01/2014
This the story of Suleiman, one of nearly 60,000 refugees who crossed the border into northern Iraq in August 2013. Flight meant many families were torn apart a...
- Iraq: Ban Ki-moon & the High Commissioner visit Syrian Refugees
unhcr - 14/01/2014
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres and OCHA chief Valerie Amos, travel to northern Iraq to meet re...
- Iraq: Syrian Refugees Cross The Border By Barge
unhcr - 13/01/2014
The Simelka-Peshkhabour border crossing between Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq reopened earlier this week, allowing 4,000 Syrian refugees to cross by ba...
- South Sudan: Displaced by Discord
unhcr - 10/01/2014
UNHCR is appealing today for US$99 million to help the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the worsening humanitarian crises in South Sudan and the Cen...
- Philippines: Typhoon Survivors Find A Home for Now
unhcr - 07/01/2014
Losing your family and home is losing everything you are and have. Tyhone Haiyan tore many families apart and took almost every persons home in Tacloban City .....
- Philippines: Leaving the Darkness
unhcr - 07/01/2014
When typhoon Haiyan swept Tacloban City, it took with it what people need the most to see their way through any hard time: light. UNHCR has provided people of ...
- Lebanon: Syrian Refugee Turns 100
unhcr - 07/01/2014
Syrian refugee Halloum will mark her 100th birthday this year. There's not much to celebrate in exile, as war continues to tear apart her homeland. She looks ba...
