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UNHCR launches U$13 million appeal for South-east Asia boat crisis response
Donate to Rohingya Refugees Now GENEVA, June 5 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has launched an appeal for US$13 million to help with the needs of new boat arrivals in South-east Asia, where thousands of refugees and migrants have been risking their lives by crossing...
UNHCR launches its 2015 World Refugee Day Campaign
Geneva, 02.06.2015 Global celebrities record films highlighting our common links with people forced to flee. Global The UN refugee agency UNHCR will launch its annual World Refugee Day Campaign on Tuesday with the release of several films featuring celebrity...
Tanzania cholera epidemic improving but ‘significant challenges’ still remain
United Nations-backed containment measures aimed at stemming the deadly cholera epidemic in western Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika region appear to be working, the Organization's refugee agency (UNHCR) announced today amid a tapering off in the number of reported deaths...
Cholera epidemic claims 31 lives in Tanzania, including 29 Burundian refugees
GENEVA, May 22 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee on Friday reported that a cholera epidemic this week in Tanzania's lakeside Kagunga area has killed two local people and 29 Burundian refugees, adding to the serious challenges created by the forced population displacement from...
Some 200 people brought ashore in Myanmar
Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 22 May 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR welcomes the landing today of more than 200 people who had been stranded at sea off the coast of Rakhine State, Myanmar. Following their...
UNHCR statement on Southeast Asia sea movements
UNHCR welcomes the commitment announced today by the Foreign Ministers of Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand to resolve the issue of the thousands of refugees and migrants stranded in boats in the Bay of Bengal and off the coast of Southeast Asia. This is an important...
Pictured at an Exhibition
A picture at an exhibition has helped to change the life of Judy El Khatib, a nine-year-old Syrian girl who had been unable to move her right arm since suffering bad burn injuries four years ago.
Time running out for stranded boat people; South-east Asian governments urged to act
GENEVA, May 19 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency on Tuesday warned that time was running out for thousands of people in distress at sea and urged governments in the South-east Asia region to urgently rescue and disembark these vulnerable people. "We estimate that nearly...
UNHCR’s aid airlift arrives safely in Yemen
The first of six UNHCR airplanes bringing urgently needed aid supplies landed safely in Yemen today boosting relief stocks in the war-ravaged country, on the third day of the temporary humanitarian pause. The plane carrying blankets, kitchen utensils and sleeping mats...
Former IOC chief Rogge pledges more sport opportunities for refugees in Ethiopia
GAMBELLA, Ethiopia, May 8 (UNHCR) – Jacques Rogge, former president of the International Olympic Committee, has this week visited young South Sudanese refugees in western Ethiopia and pledged to help them play more sport. "Sport is a great peace factor. I believe that...
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