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UNHCR Thank you everyone for supporting us in the Causes Giving challenge over the past month. We raised $7212, enough to provide 36 displaced Somali families with shelter so they can sleep soundly under one roof once again. Overall we finished 30th from over 6,000 entered causes and were the highest ranked participating organization from the United Nations. Thank you.
UNHCR There are just 12 hours remaining to make a $10 donation and help us stay in the top 30 of the Causes challenge. We are currently in 30th position from over 7800 participating Causes. Make your donation in the next few hours and you can help keep us there. Donations will be spent providing shelter for Somali families forced to flee their homes when the conflict reach their doorstep.
UNHCR We're helping to provide returning Ugandan IDPs such as Walter Odong and John Okello with clean water. To date, 24 protected wells have been constructed in Amuru and Pader districts, while another 20 are expected to be completed by the end of the year. These will provide clean and safe drinking water to some 250,000 people in Amuru alone.
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AMURU DISTRICT, Uganda, November 4 (UNHCR) – When Walter Odong, 38, decided to return home from a settlement for internally displaced people (IDP) in northern Uganda, he did not really think about the difficulties he would face. ...
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UNHCR has airlifted emergency relief items from South Africa to Angola to help alleviate the plight of tens of thousands of Angolans who were expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo last month. A Boeing 747 carried 2,250 tents, 5,000 sleeping mats, and 4,000 blankets, as well as one as one prefabricated ware...house. Many Angolans were not given any opportunity to collect their personal belongings before being forced back to Angola.Read More
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LUANDA, Angola, November 3 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has airlifted emergency relief items from South Africa to Angola to help alleviate the plight of tens of thousands of Angolans who were expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last month.
UNHCR Great Q&A with Bjorn Heidenstrom who is cycling from Norway to the South African world cup to raise awareness of refugees. Along the way he is collecting football shirts from the top teams and aims to use them to create the world's largest football shirt for the World Cup. Great man with a great story, be sure to read this and let us know your thoughts.
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On Your Bike: Bjorn Heidenstrom leaves UNHCR's headquarters in Geneva for Lyon en route to South Africa and the World Cup.
UNHCR A Chadian colleague working for our government counterpart in eastern Chad was killed in an ambush over the weekend. Michel Mitna was head of the Chadian refugee body CNAR and worked daily with UNHCR to protect and assist refugees/internally displaced people. Mitna was riding in a vehicle clearly marked with the CNAR and UNHCR logos when he was attacked by armed bandits and killed.
UNHCR Bjorn Heidenstrom visited our HQ in Geneva yesterday. Bjorn is cycling from Oslo to South Africa to raise awareness for refugees. Along the way he's met dozens of major names in the world of sports including, as pictured below, Sepp Blatter - the president of FIFA. Be sure to follow his journey at the link below. We will provide more updates on his travels in the future.
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The Shirt - Forget me not 2009/10
UNHCR We're helping a northern Iraq town recover from a devastating bomb blast by rebuilding shops and homes for the benefit of thousands of civilians.
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Before and After: Workmen (left) renovate a damaged building in Taza; the finished house, painted blue, seen from the same viewpoint (right).
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Imagine fighting in your country forced you to flee your home. If you cross your border and end up in another country, you have rights to seek protection and assistance. we have a mandate to give you shelter and hope. Until yesterday, the 12 million Africans displaced by conflict within their own land had no such right...s. Protection and assistance was voluntary. Today, African nations decided it was their obligation to protect their own citizens. If they don't, they will hold each other to account.Read More
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At the close of the African Union summit in Kampala, Uganda, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres (right), meets photograpers with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and AU Political Commissioner Julia Dolly Joiner.
UNHCR Click the link below to read our interview with Pablo Vizcaino and Abdulrahman Fadaaq who provide community services to refugees. They ensure identification, registration and protection in Kharaz Camp for Somali refugees in Yemen. Please also make a $10 donation to help them provide shelter for refugees that arrive at the camp.
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Providing food and assistance to refugees in Yemen. Yemen hosts some 140,000 refugees and grants refugee status to all Somalis crossing its borders. Some 11,000 live in Kharaz refugee camp, out of which 87% depend on the international assistance to survive. ...
UNHCR It's too late for you to help Hoda, a Somali refugee, who has been forced to leave her young children in the hands of her 10 year old daughter whilst she crosses the gulf of Yemen. However, for $30 you can help displaced Somalis like Hoda start a business that allows her to provide for her children without making the dangerous journey into Yemen. Make your donation today using the link below:
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Click this link and make a $30 donation to help future Somali's in Hoda's position stay and provide for their children. Remember, every donation also brings us one step closer to winning the $50,000 giving challenge.
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Yesterday we released our latest asylum trends. Iraq remains the top country of origin of the asylum applicants (13,200 claims) for the fourth consecutive year. Afghans (12,000 claims) and Somalis (11,000 claims) are the second and third largest groups as security conditions continue to deteriorate in large parts of th...eir home countries. The other main countries of origin are China, Serbia (including Kosovo), the Russian Federation, Nigeria, Mexico, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.Read More
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GENEVA – Asylum applications in industrialized nations rose by 10 percent in the first half of 2009 compared to the same period last year, according to the UN refugee agency's provisional statistics released Wednesday. ...
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Close to 30,000 Angolans live in and around three overcrowded reception centres near the border with the DRC. Some of them claimed they had been rounded up and taken to the border, despite the fact they carried documents certifying their refugee status. Others said they were forced back without having had a chance to t...ake their identification documents or any of their belongings. Most of them were deported from the Bas Congo province in southern DRC.Read More
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LUANDA, Angola, October 20 (UNHCR) – Tens of thousands of Angolans recently expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are in dire need of humanitarian assistance around the town of Mbanza Congo. ...
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UNHCR This is story is worth reading. Ahmed Ali fled with his wife and two children from Mogadishu to Bossasso in north-eastern Somalia. They walked for hundreds of kilometres before reaching the relative safety of Puntland. Finally they can rest and begin rebuilding their lives. Click the link below and please make a $10 donation via the cause page if you can help.
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