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  • Over 5,000 Venezuelans find new homes through Brazil’s internal relocation programme

    news UNHCR News, 15 Mar 2019 (5 years ago )
    Over 5,000 Venezuelans have been relocated from Brazil’s northern state of Roraima to 17 other states in the country, thanks to an innovative internal relocation programme supported by UNHCR, the UN Refugee agency, civil society and other UN agencies such as IOM, UNFPA and UNDP. According to offi...
  • Côte d'Ivoire : Introduction de la Carte Biométrique des Réfugiés (RTI)

    news RTI, 22 Mar 2019 (5 years ago )
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  • Irish woman sets up community programme to help refugees

    news UNHCR, 06 Mar 2019 (5 years ago )
    An Irish woman pilots the country’s first sponsorship programme to help welcome refugees into the community in her small town. It was more than just the drip drip of news that spurred Nola Leonard to take action to help refugees in her home country of Ireland. Through her faith, she was inspired ...
  • Learning is a welcome respite for child refugees on Kos

    news UNHCR, 14 Feb 2019 (5 years ago )
    The KEDU school offers classes, museum trips and a sense of normalcy to young asylum-seekers on Greek island. Thirteen-year-old Bahez from Iraq carefully sketches an ancient marble head. His skills – and interest in Greece – are taking shape thanks to a school set up by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agen...
  • Thousands of asylum-seekers moved off Greek islands

    news UNHCR, 27 Dec 2018 (5 years ago )
    As winter bites, UNHCR helps the Greek government move vulnerable asylum-seekers from reception centres on the Aegean Islands to shelter on the mainland. LESVOS, Greece – Under a light drizzle, families from various war-torn countries stack duffel bags and battered cases holding all their possess...
  • Berlin bus job puts Syrian refugee in the driver’s seat

    news UNHCR, 22 Jan 2019 (5 years ago )
    Transport chiefs in Germany’s capital are training refugees to drive buses, addressing a shortage of drivers and integrating newcomers. Mohamad Al Said steps aboard a chugging, yellow bus and clambers inside the drivers’ cab, as passengers file on board behind him. The Syrian newcomer may look li...
  • Ending Statelessness in South Eastern Europe

    news UNHCR, 25 May 2018 (5 years ago )
    As part of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) global #IBELONG Campaign to end statelessness in the world by 2024, the UNHCR Regional Representation for South Eastern Europe has produced a brochure about the situation of persons at risk of becoming stateless in this region. ...
  • UNHCR rushing staff, supplies to assist people affected by Cyclone Idai

    news UNHCR, 22 Mar 2019 (5 years ago )
    UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is working with governments and humanitarian partners in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi to provide relief to the survivors of the Tropical Cyclone Idai, which struck the east coast of southern Africa on 14 and 15 March.
  • Refugee camp in Malawi gets banking services

    news UNHCR, 10 May 2018 (6 years ago )
    A local bank has opened a branch with full services inside Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi bringing much needed services to its residents
  • UNHCR launches Yetu Community Radio in Dzaleka refugee camp

    news United Nations Malawi, 26 Oct 2018 (5 years ago )
    etu Community Radio hit the airwaves at Dzaleka Refugee Camp in the central region district of Dowa on 7th August, 2018 becoming the first Community Radio to be set up in a refugee camp in the Southern Africa region.