Topic: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The UN refugee agency on Friday urged European countries not to send Iraqi refugees back to central parts of Iraq, just days after the official withdrawal of US combat troops.The office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees made the appeal after ...
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) chief Antonio Guterres announced on Friday the body has referred 100,000 Iraqi refugees in the Middle East for resettlement in third countries since 2007."100,000 submissions of Iraqi refugees is a tremendous achievement. Many have been living ...
UNHCR: Some 60 Iraqi refugees deported from Europe arrive in Baghdad despite safety fearsThe U.N. says nearly 60 Iraqi refugees deported from Britain and other European countries have arrived in Baghdad despite concerns the situation is still too dangerous for their return.UNHCR ...
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Nahla and her pharmacist husband Malik were prospering in the Shi'ite city of Kerbala, despite the sectarian and criminal violence unleashed by the U.S.-led 2003 invasion of Iraq. They even bought a new house.Then one day in 2006, Usama, ...
The United States urged European countries and wealthy Arab states on Tuesday to boost their aid to the millions of displaced Iraqis, saying they did " "Our European friends and partners have done far too little to support the humanitarian assistance process ...
More than 30,000 Iraqis have moved to the United States under a resettlement program that began in 2007 while much smaller numbers have gone to other countries, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.The big United States intake, which began with the program ...
This shrine city, long a destination for Shia pilgrims, had become home to an es- timated one million Iraqis seeking refuge in Syria. He and Hamza had fled with their families to Syria one month earher after Shia militiamen attacked their homes. ...
Angelina Jolie, visiting Iraqi refugees in Syria, urges world not to forget their plightAngelina Jolie met with Iraqi refugees in Syria on Friday and urged the world not to forget the plight of those among them who cannot return home because of ...
Angelina Jolie visits displaced people in Baghdad in role as UNHCR goodwill ambassadorAngelina Jolie on Thursday visited a settlement for displaced Iraqis in northwest Baghdad in her role as a goodwill ambassador for UNHCR.The actor met four families whose members said their ...
The United Nations said on Tuesday a budget shortfall has forced it to suspend medical aid to hundreds of chronically ill Iraqi refugees in Jordan.UN refugee agency UNHCR said it has temporarily stopped medical assistance to 600 Iraqi families, some of whose ...
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