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Many Somalis face a bleak decision between enduring violence in their homeland or taking a dangerous journey to Yemen. This is the harrowing account of Siidow, a 67-year-old grandfather, who fled his home in Somalia for Yemen. After reaching Yemen he evaded authorities, took on small jobs and managed to save enough to ...travel to Saudi Arabia. Siidow was arrested during his first night in Saudi Arabia and and flown back to Mogadishu.Read More
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When local militiamen raided his home in central Somalia five years ago, Siidow knew he had to go far, far away if he was to survive and have any hope of providing a half-decent future for his large family.
UNHCR Our photo unit has put together a brilliant photo essay showcasing the refugees and internally displaced people we help around the world. Click the link below and spend five minutes discovering why we do what we do. Let us know your thoughts.
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A photo essay showcasing the people UNHCR helps around the globe. Possibly our best photo essay yet.
UNHCR This is a fascinating interview with Dominique Porteaud our senior water and sanitation officer. Dominique visits refugees camps and settlements for the internally displaced around the world to plan and build water and sanitation systems. Worth a read if you have five minutes.
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GENEVA, November 19 (UNHCR) – Dominique Porteaud is UNHCR's senior water and sanitation officer. The French national, who has forestry and public health engineering degrees, visits refugees camps ...
UNHCR Every year, thousands of people try to reach North America via the Caribbean. We are providing vital pieces in the protection jigsaw that covers the region.
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MIAMI, United States, November 18 (UNHCR) – With its hundreds of secluded islands surrounded by azure seas, the Caribbean attracts not only tourists but also ruthless opportunists. Smugglers, peddling ...
UNHCR We have had a presence in Calais since June. UNHCR staff, accompanied by an interpreter, visit towns and communes up and down the coast, meeting undocumented migrants and telling them about the asylum system in France and how to apply for refugee status, as well as assisting with applications. It's often a struggle getting people to open up, especially if smugglers are nearby.
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LOON-PLAGE, France, November 17 (UNHCR) – In late September, French police used bulldozers to flatten a notorious makeshift camp for migrants and asylum-seekers on the outskirts of Calais, saying it had become a base for the illegal activities of people smugglers.
UNHCR We're calling for an end to the detention of Lao Hmong refugees in Thailand. Three years ago recognized Lao Hmong refugees were rounded up in Bangkok and held in detention. They have not committed any crime and their detention serves no purpose. In total 158 refugees are being held in Nong Khai, this includes many women and children. The U.S. Australia, Canada and the Netherlands have offered to resettle them.
UNHCR Encouraging story. For many years Ukshin Toplica thought he might never return to Kosovo from exile in the neighbouring former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. "I always wanted to bring my family back. But we were told that Albanians had occupied all the houses in our old neighbourhood, so we felt we could not safely return."
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Ukshin Toplica only felt he was really back home once he had completed renovating the house he had been forced to flee a decade ago in the Kosovo capital of Pristina.
UNHCR Great news. Our High Commissioner, Antonio Guterres, has been named as one of Forbes' "World's Most Powerful People". The list was limited to just 67 people - one person for every 100 million people on the planet. The list includes Barack Obama, Rupert Murdoch and Gordon Brown.
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Former Portuguese Prime Minister heads U.N. agency which works to repatriate and assist more than 34 million refugees and displaced people in 110 countries; agency has twice won the Nobel Peace Prize, has ability to provide immediate emergency assistance to hundreds of thousands of people. Completel...
UNHCR We're getting new details of the ethnic bloodshed in the Equateur province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from newly arrived refugees. They told our staff they were fleeing Enyele tribesmen who had gone from house to house, pillaging, raping and killing mostly Munzaya civilians in Dongo and surrounding villages. The root of the violence, they said, was a dispute over farming and fishing rights.
UNHCR We've begun distributing tents to families displaced by military operations in northern Pakistan's South Waziristan district. In total we hope to distribute some 35,000 tents, pending the final number of confirmed registered families.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, November 9 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency on Monday began distributing tents to families displaced by military operations in northern Pakistan's South Waziristan district. A ...
UNHCR "The number of people that die and should not die every six months is equivalent to number of victims of the Asian tsunami"
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres visits some of the estimated 2.1 million displaced people in eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and asks for more international assistance.
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.
