What You Wish For

By Europa Newswire | Published October 18, 2011

Europa Newswire Photo by Luiz Rampelotto United Nations, October 17 2011 John Prendergast, Co-Founder of the Enough Project, speaks to correspondents on the launch today of “What You Wish For”, an anthology of short stories and poetry for youth, written to benefit Darfuri refugees. Mr. Prendergast was joined by Udo Janz, Director of the New [...]

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Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie in Malta

By Europa Newswire | Published June 21, 2011

  Europa Newswire Lyster Barracks, a detention centre on Malta. Just ahead of World Refugee Day (20 June), UNHCR’s Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie came to meet asylum-seekers. These women recently fled the violence in Libya, most of them are from Somalia, Ethiopia or sub-Saharan Africa. They are waiting for their asylum-claims to be processed, and [...]

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Angelina Jolie Visits the Tunisian-Libyan Border

By Europa Newswire | Published April 6, 2011

  Europa Newswire United Nations – April 05 2011 Hollywood actress and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie travelled today to the Tunisian-Libyan border, where she spoke with people who had recently fled the fighting in Libya and highlighted the need for greater international support for those affected by the crisis. Jolie, who advocates on [...]

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Angelina Jolie Visiting Pakistan

By Europa Newswire | Published September 7, 2010

Europa Newswire September 07 2010 Actor and humanitarian Angelina Jolie spent time today talking to Afghans refugees as she continues to tour Pakistan as a show of support for the millions affected by the recent floods in Pakistan in her role as Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). As the waters [...]

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Floods in Pakistan

By Europa Newswire | Published September 4, 2010

Europa Newswire September 03 2010 Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon, Permanent Representative of Pakistan, United Nations (UN) said that “the world should step in, other wise you will see a lot of, a lot of mortality and sadness that’ll occur” from the devastation caused by the recent cent floods in the country. Although the UN Refugee [...]

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Afghanistan Refugee Camp

By Europa Newswire | Published February 8, 2010

Europa Newswire Photo: Fardin Waezi A little girl and her two little brothers from Helmand province live in a refugee camp in the Charahi Qamber area of Kabul as the security situation gets worse in the rural districts of Helmand. Thousands of families have abandoned their homes in Helmand and sought refuge in Kabul where [...]

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UN Goodwill Ambassador Jolie spotlights plight of Iraqi refugees

By Europa Newswire | Published October 4, 2009

Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visits refugee families in SyriaOriginally uploaded by UNHCR EUROPA NEWSWIRE.Photo by: UNHCR/S.Malkawi.3 October 2009 – The award-winning actress and United Nations goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie has urged the international community to not forget the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees who remain unwilling to return to their homeland despite the relative [...]

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SOMALIA FIGHTING

By Europa Newswire | Published October 2, 2009

EUROPA NEWSWIRE. UN Photo/Milton Grant . Alla Amin camp occupies a dusty expanse of land between Mogadishu and the Afgoye corridor.  The camp is terribly overcrowded, with makeshift shelters made of bits of cloth, cardboard and sticks. Everyone who lives here has a traumatic story to tell: Hilowley Adan Mohamud, displaced from Mogadishu: “I saw [...]

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2009 Nansen Award to Ted Kennedy

By Europa Newswire | Published September 17, 2009

2009 Nansen Award to Ted KennedyOriginally uploaded by UNHCR EUROPA NEWSWIRE. The UN refugee agency announced Tuesday (15 September) that its Nansen Refugee Award will go to the late Senator Edward Kennedy for his achievements as an unparalleled champion of refugee protection and assistance for more than 45 years. In announcing the Nansen award, U.N. [...]

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UNHCR News Story: Angelina Jolie visits “dire” refugee settlement on Kenyan border with Somalia

By Europa Newswire | Published September 15, 2009

UNHCR News Story: Angelina Jolie visits "dire" refugee settlement on Kenyan border with SomaliaOriginally uploaded by UNHCR EUROPA NEWSWIRE. Photo by: Boris Heger/UNHCR. DADAAB, Kenya, September 12 (UNHCR) – UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie on Saturday visited Dadaab, the world's largest refugee settlement. Describing the three-camp complex close to north-east Kenya's border with Somalia as [...]

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