Showing posts with label UNHCR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UNHCR. Show all posts
Monday, August 17, 2026

The real refugee crisis is the failure to make peace. Refugees flee war, conflict and persecution. End the wars that force people to run for their lives.

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @Refugees The real refugee crisis is the failure to make peace. Refugees flee war, conflict and persecution. ...
Friday, January 30, 2015

My letter to the NYTimes RE A New Level of Refugee Suffering: Angelina Jolie on the Syrians and Iraqis Who Can’t Go Home

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VOA NEWS: UN Relief Agency Halts Gaza Aid RE: A New Level of Refugee Suffering: Angelina Jolie on the Syrians and Iraqis Who ...
Saturday, June 21, 2014

"A multiplication of new crises, and at the same time old crises that seem never to die": More than 50 million displaced worldwide, half are children, many of them caught up in conflicts or persecution that world powers have been unable to prevent or end, UNHCR said in its annual Global Trends report.... Afghan, Syrian and Somali nationals accounted for 53 percent of the 11.7 million refugees under UNHCR's responsibility. Five million Palestinians are looked after by a sister agency UNRWA.

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Iman, 8 , A Syrian refugee, sits in the Fadaya Camp some 25 miles east of Beirut, Sunday March 9, 2014. Iman fled Hallab, Syria, near Idl...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

"People in neighbouring states have shown incredible compassion and opened their homes to hundreds of thousands of people but we all have a shared responsibility. It would be catastrophic if the neighbouring countries closed their borders to the thousands of people who flee the conflict every day. Yet how can we call on Syria’s neighbours to keep their borders open to refugees if we keep our own under lock and key?"

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A call of duty - 25 leading charities urge PM to open Britain’s door to its share of Syria's most vulnerable refugees   http://www.in...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

UNHRC Discusses Human Rights Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territories

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http://english.pnn.ps/index.php/international/5767-unhrc-discusses-human-rights-abuses-in-occupied-palestinian-territories PNN (Palestine...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Dialogues in Democracy.... Karen AbuZayd will speak about the plight and promise of refugees

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Refugees in the Middle East http://libertyville.patch.com/articles/stevenson-center-on-democracy-hosts-program-on-arab-spring United Nation...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Exploding the myths: UNRWA, UNHCR and the Palestine refugees

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http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=400187 Palestinians receive food aid from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency at a re...