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Yazidi Women Welcomed Back to the Faith
DOHUK, Iraq—Leila, a 20-year-old Yazidi woman who was taken captive by militants and forced to convert to Islam, escaped in March and has since been reunited with her family. Her story would have been impossible just a few months ago, but she is now one of hundreds of...
Refugees and Human Rights Student Poetry Contest, 2015
UNHCR and the CCUNESCO are happy to announce the winners of the “Refugees and Human Rights Poetry Contest, 2015 edition". Canadian students from grades 4 to 12 from schools across the country submitted high quality poems as part of this contest. There were...
World Refugee Day: Get to know the individual behind the word refugee
UNHCR Canada has launched in Ottawa and Toronto a public campaign encouraging the public to get to know the individual or family behind the word “refugee”. The campaign is part of a UNHCR global awareness outreach to mark World Refugee Day 20 June this year. For the...
Mediterranean crossings in 2015 already top 100,000
Donate Now GENEVA, June 9 (UNHCR) –Refugee and migrant arrivals to Europe across the Mediterranean so far in 2015 have moved above 100,000, with record numbers now arriving every day in the Greek islands. Official figures show that as of 8 June a total of 103,000...
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...
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