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A Message from UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie on World Refugee Day 2012

By On June 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment

For World Refugee Day 2012, UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie has written a special message to remind everyone that every individual refugee matters.

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Author Khaled Hosseini: “No one chooses to be a refugee”

By On June 18, 2012 · 1 Comment

Video: Acclaimed author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns lends his voice to UNHCR’s World Refugee Day global social advocacy campaign, “Dilemmas.”

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Photo Friday: Help Angelina Jolie Speak Out for Refugees on World Refugee Day

By On June 15, 2012 · 1 Comment

Help Angelina Jolie give a voice to refugees and displaced people around the world in time for World Refugee Day on June 20th

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Refugee Stories: Hawa’s Dilemma (Kenya)

By On June 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Hawa faced a dilemma: Stay in Ethiopia where she will surely die, or flee to Kenya, where she could provide a better future for her child? Watch her describe this difficult ordeal in her own words.

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UNHCR staff trapped in Abijan Office Compound: Interview with Jacques Franquin, Representative in Côte d’Ivoire

By On April 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment

UNHCR’s representative in Ivory Coast is keeping morale up as he tries to arrange for his team and some 300 Liberian refugees to be evacuated to safety.

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Diary from the Field: Impressions from the Tunisian-Libyan border [Part 4] from Andrew Purvis

By On April 5, 2011 · 1 Comment

Andrew Purvis, from UNHCR’s communications service, posts a fourth update in his series about visiting the Tunisia-Libya border.

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Giving up your child to save her: a refugee tale from Tunisia

By On March 22, 2011 · 7 Comments

Unlike migrant workers from more peaceful countries like Bangladesh, who came to Libya only temporarily and are now headed home, refugees from Somalia, Eritrea and Côte d’Ivoire face an uncertain future.

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