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Refugees fleeing South Sudan tops 1.5 million
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Sidah Hawa and her children fled conflict in South Sudan and reached safety in Uganda after traveling for two days. © UNHCR/Michele Sibiloni As violence surges, South Sudanese refugee population in Uganda more than triples in six months to 698,000....
What to Do About Syria
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Syrian government forces patrol the Khalidiyah neighbourhood of Homs, mid-2013. Photo: AFP/Getty Images You would think that, having stayed in Cairo for much of the last year, I would feel closer than in New York or Boston to the Syrian catastrophe...
The Trump Effect: What will happen to 3 mn Syrian Refugees in Turkey?
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By Katharine Jones and Esra Kaytaz | (The Conversation) | – – On Holocaust Memorial Day 2017 and amid the world’s greatest refugee crisis since World War II, Donald Trump imposed a four-month suspension of all refugee admissions into the US and indefinitely...
Yemen Holds Landmark Conference on Migration and Asylum
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Smuggled Africans migrants on Yemen coasts By National Yemen The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNCHR), in collaboration with the Yemeni government, are holding Yemen’s largest conference on issues pertaining...
“They Are Also Human:” An Afternoon with Human Rights Defenders from Burma
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“They Are Also Human:” An Afternoon with Human Rights Defenders from Burma November 3rd 2013 By Michelle Eberhard, graduate student of human rights at Columbia University ______________________...

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organisation dedicated to saving lives and protecting the rights of refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people.
UNHCR - South Sudan Emergency

The situation in South Sudan and neighbouring countries has quickly escalated into a full-blown humanitarian emergency. Although we are doing all