UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

unhcr - 14/06/2007

On April 4th, Angola celebrated 5 years of peace. The decades-long war is over but establishing peace has not been easy. UNHCR has been instrumental in bringi...

unhcr - 14/06/2007

Increasingly large numbers of Somali refugees and other desperate people are trying to make their way across the Gulf of Aden to the shores of Yemen to find ref...

unhcr - 30/05/2007

The continued violence in Iraq is creating a humanitarian crisis of massive proportions. It is estimated that more than 2 million people have left the country a...

unhcr - 23/04/2007

For more than a decade, nearly 2 million people have been confined to camps in areas of northern Uganda where the rebel Lord's Resistance Army operates. With pe...

unhcr - 23/04/2007

Angelina Jolie braved a violent sandstorm to visit refugees in eastern Chad. There, she was able to see how the security situation has deteriorated in the regio...

unhcr - 23/04/2007

In eastern Chad, continued violence threatens the UN refugee agency's fragile humanitarian lifeline to hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees and tens of th...

unhcr - 13/05/2006

For more than 60 years, UNHCR has protected and promoted the rights of tens of millions of refugees and displaced people. For those who flee their homes because...

unhcr - 13/05/2006

For 70 years, UNHCR has protected and promoted the rights of refugees and displaced people. Nearly 80 million people in the world - one percent of humanity - ha...

unhcr - 13/05/2006

For more than 60 years, UNHCR has protected and promoted the rights of tens of millions of refugees and displaced people. For those who flee their homes because...

unhcr - 13/05/2006

For 70 years, UNHCR has protected and promoted the rights of refugees and displaced people. Nearly 80 million people in the world - one percent of humanity - ha...