refugees

Overview of delegates attending an international meeting in Geneva on urban refugees

UN agency resolves to help growing numbers of refugees fleeing to urban areas

10 December 2009
A United Nations gathering aimed at tackling some of the urgent problems suffered by the mounting number of refugees seeking shelter in cities and towns has wrapped up today with calls for greater efforts to help the forcibly displaced.
Ben Affleck in Africa during the shooting of the "Gimme Shelter" video

Microsoft aids UN refugee agency by matching donations made on Facebook

17 June 2009
The technology company Microsoft has pledged to match dollar for dollar, up to $50,000, every donation to the United Nations refugee agency made on social networking site Facebook.
Many people trafficked internally in the Philippines are put to work in metropolitan areas such as Manila, the capital city

UN agency chief urges protection of refugees while fighting smugglers

15 April 2009
The head of the United Nations refugee agency today urged Member States of the so-called Bali Process on people-smuggling in the Asia-Pacific region to ensure that refugees and asylum-seekers are protected.
Smouldering ashes of "I" Block in Goz Amer

Chad: blazes rip through Sudanese refugee camps

17 March 2009
The United Nations refugee agency said today it was hastening to replace supplies and put preventive measures in place after five accidental fires swept through two camps for Sudanese refugees in remote eastern Chad in the past four weeks.
Congolese refugees fleeing attacks from the Lord's Resistance Army arrive in South Sudan

Over 15,000 Congolese fleeing Ugandan rebel attacks pour into Sudan, UN reports

17 February 2009
More than 15,000 Congolese have fled to South Sudan since the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) began launching attacks in north-east Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations refugee agency reported today.
Internally displaced Iraqi girl

UN agency to cooperate with Europe on standardised protection for refugees

17 February 2009
The United Nations refugee agency hopes that a new European Union (EU) asylum system due to be announced tomorrow will ensure more consistent decision-making across the 27-nation block, where asylum-seekers of similar backgrounds now have widely varying chances of finding protection in different member states.
A refugee child looks out from one of the three overcrowded camps in Dadaab, Kenya

UN fund allocates $5 million to help rising number of Somalis fleeing to Kenya

12 January 2009
With Somali refugees continuing to flood into Kenya for relief from violence and drought, the United Nations emergency relief fund has targeted five million dollars to cover gaps in their nutritional needs, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced today.