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UN High Commissioner calls for renewed international focus on Afghanistan
GENEVA, Oct 6 (UNHCR)—UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres today appealed to the international community to refocus its attention on Afghanistan, warning that it would be dangerous to ignore the country, and praised Iran and Pakistan for hosting so many...
Guterres says UNHCR and partners struggle to meet humanitarian needs
GENEVA, Oct 5 (UNHCR)—The global refugee crisis is so great that the UN refugee agency and other agencies are struggling to respond to and meet all the humanitarian needs they face. That was the bleak message of UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres,...
Refugee sea arrivals in Greece this year approach 400,000
ATHENS, Greece, October 2 (UNHCR)—The UN refugee agency said on Friday that refugee and migrant arrivals in Greece are expected to hit the 400,000 mark soon, despite adverse weather conditions. Greece remains by far the largest single entry point for new sea arrivals...
200,000 Syrian refugee children to get free schooling in Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct 2 (UNHCR)—Tasnim, a 12-year-old refugee girl from Aleppo, Syria, is excitedly preparing to return to school. "I want to become a dentist. I have always been intrigued by the tools and materials dentists use in their neat clinics. Every time I...
Number displaced by violence in Bangui soars past 40,000
BANGUI, Central African Republic, Oct 1 (UNHCR)—An uneasy calm has returned to the Central African Republic capital of Bangui, but violence and tension has been reported from the provinces and the number of displaced people has soared to more than 40,000 within...
Iraqi schools face a desk deficit
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept 30 (UNHCR)—While many Iraqi students were enjoying the last weeks of summer before school resumed, the classrooms of al-Asil elementary school in Baghdad's Mansour neighbourhood were full. Here, students whose families had been uprooted by violence...
UNHCR seeking urgent access to thousands fleeing Bangui, CAR violence
GENEVA, Sept 29 (UNHCR)—Fighting between rival militias in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui since Saturday has left at least 36 people dead, forced thousands to flee their homes and moved the reconciliation process a step backwards, the UN refugee agency...
Salzburg, taken aback by number of refugees, scrambled to set up reception facilities
SALZBURG, Austria, Sept 28 (UNHCR)—Nobody in Salzburg ever expected the refugee crisis to hit this close to home. So when Michael Haybäck, the city's director of public order, received a call at 8.30pm one night in early September, he had to think fast. Martin Floss...
The challenge of life in their Afghan homeland for children born in exile
KABUL, Afghanistan, November 20, 2014—The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted 25 years ago today to protect children like Hasanat and Aisha. The two have returned to a homeland, Afghanistan, that they had heard much about but never...
Home Alone: South Sudan teen leads her young siblings to safety in Uganda
BOROLI REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, Uganda, September 4, 2014—When 13-year-old Yayo Tangko turned up at the Boroli refugee settlement in Uganda earlier in 2014 with her four younger siblings, she feared the worst for her missing parents. "They are dead, because otherwise they...
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