Arquivo da tag: UNHCR

UNHCR warns of bleaker future for refugees as Syrian conflict enters 5th year

Publicado em 16/03/2015 por EDITOR RC

UNHCR is hoping significant pledges will be made at The Third International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria in Kuwait on 31 March.   GENEVA [ ABN NEWS ] — As the Syrian conflict enters its fifth year, the UN refugee … Continue lendo →

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Failure to end crisis in Syria ‘diminishes us all’: UN refugees envoy Angelina Jolie

Publicado em 14/03/2015 por EDITOR RC

  NEW YORK [ ABN NEWS ] — As the Syrian conflict enters its fifth year, it is shameful that even the basic demand for full humanitarian access has not been met, Oscar-winning actress and United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) … Continue lendo →

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Some 300 feared dead in fresh Mediterranean tragedy

Publicado em 11/02/2015 por EDITOR RC

  GENEVA [ ABN NEWS ] — The UN refugee agency on Wednesday said it was “shocked” at evidence that some 300 migrants and refugees may have died after setting off from the coast of Libya in four dinghies at … Continue lendo →

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Deported children face deadly new dangers on return to Honduras

Publicado em 01/02/2015 por EDITOR RC

  SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS [ ABN NEWS ] — The gunman was waiting as Marco Antonio Cortés boarded a bus in the north-west Honduran city of San Pedro Sula. One pull of the trigger and the 18-year-old was dead, … Continue lendo →

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UN Secretary General’s Humanitarian Envoy and UN High Commissioner for Refugees praise Sudan for generously welcoming South Sudanese refugees

Publicado em 24/10/2014 por EDITOR RC

  KHARTOUM [ ABN NEWS ] — United Nations Secretary-General’s Humanitarian Envoy Abdullah al Matouq and UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres returned from a visit to Sudan’s White Nile State, where more than 50,000 South Sudanese refugees currently … Continue lendo →

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Ukrainian summer camp provides respite from trauma of displacement

Publicado em 09/10/2014 por EDITOR RC

  PROMETEI SUMMER CAMP, UKRAINE [ ABN NEWS ] — Deep in the thick forests of eastern Ukraine, next to a meandering river, is a summer camp. Prometei is a throwback to another era, that of the Soviet Union. It … Continue lendo →

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Whirlwind of violence surprises some residents in northern Syria

Publicado em 09/10/2014 por EDITOR RC

  SURUC, TURKEY [ ABN NEWS ] — Faysal thought that the conflict plaguing Syria since March 2011 had bypassed his home in the north, so he was stunned when the whirlwind of violence came recently to Kobane (Ayn al-Arab). … Continue lendo →

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Asylum claims from Syria, Iraq and other conflict zones rise in first half 2014

Publicado em 28/09/2014 por EDITOR RC

  GENEVA [ ABN NEWS ] — A UNHCR report released on Friday shows that the number of people seeking refugee status in industrialized countries continued to climb in the first half of 2014, driven by the wars in Syria … Continue lendo →

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