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<title><![CDATA[London Olympics gear up to help refugees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The International Olympic Committee and the London 2012 Olympic Games Organising Committee have joined UNHCR in a campaign to collect sports clothing for refugees.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR joins Facebook virtual charity gifts initiative]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR joins a "virtual charity" initiative by Facebook that will help provide shelter for uprooted people in places like Afghanistan, eastern Congo and Sudan.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[North American entertainers support mosquito net campaign in Uganda]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Popular entertainers Tom Cavanagh and Gavin DeGraw raise awareness about malaria and help distribute hundreds of mosquito nets to refugees in Uganda.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR launches campaign to debunk asylum myths in Austria]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR launches a major campaign in Austria to debunk myths about asylum seekers, using billboards, postcards, the internet, radio and television.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gimme Shelter: Ben Affleck and UNHCR launch campaign for Congolese]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Hollywood actor and director Ben Affleck joins UNHCR to launch a global campaign to aid those uprooted by continuing conflict in eastern Congo.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ben Affleck video unveiled for UNHCR "Gimme Shelter" campaign]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR, with the help of Ben Affleck and Sir Mick Jagger, launches a major new campaign to raise US$23 million to help displaced Congolese civilians.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Colombians light up to show solidarity for displaced people]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Thousands of Colombians mark the end of a UNHCR-led campaign by gathering in a Bogota and showing solidarity with the country's internally displaced people.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Barcelona, UNHCR launch "Més" campaign to help refugees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Spanish football giants FC Barcelona and UNHCR launch a new fund-raising campaign to bring sports, education and life skills to refugee youngsters.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[16 Days of Activism: Fathers urged to act as role models in Montenegro]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR-backed campaign to end violence against women reaches out to fathers and father figures in male-dominated Montenegrin society]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 4 Dec 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[16 Days of Activism: Play seeks to broach taboo of domestic violence]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Domestic violence is a sensitive issue in most societies, especially among the conservative Afghan refugee community in Pakistan. A UNHCR-funded project uses drama to broach the issue.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 3 Dec 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[16 Days of Activism: South African border shelter helps young Zimbabwean women]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A UNHCR-supported shelter offers assistance and protection to traumatized young women crossing into South Africa from Zimbabwe.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR backs 16 days of opposition to violence against women]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR chief marks annual campaign by stressing need to pay urgent attention to preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR backs new Irish campaign against people smuggling]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR gives its support to a campaign by the Irish police and justice ministry to raise awareness about the trafficking of human beings.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A UN safety net for refugees in Africa]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The UN refugee agency and Nothing But Nets have launched an initiative to protect over 630,000 refugees in Uganda, Sudan, Kenya and Tanzania from malaria.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR and UAE Red Crescent launch fund-raising campaign for refugee women and children]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR and the United Arab Emirates Red Crescent Society launch a fund-raising campaign to help displaced women and children around the world.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[And they're off: The Human Race comes to Geneva]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Almost 100 UNHCR staffers and supporters sacrificed their lunch on Friday and pounded the streets of Geneva to raise money for refugee children in Chad.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Asian refugees get a boost from Beijing Olympics]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Athletes at the Beijing Olympics have shown their solidarity with refugees in Asia by contributing 30,000 items of sports clothing.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PricewaterhouseCoopers donates $4 million to educate Darfur's refugees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The firm has donated US$4 million to support the education of refugee children in eastern Chad's camps, in the single largest corporate donation ever received by the UN refugee agency.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Beijing Olympic athletes get the chance to give hope to refugees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[With the launch of the "Giving is Winning" campaign in the Olympic Village in Beijing, 10,000 athletes are being asked to donate surplus sports clothing to make life a little brighter for refugees in Asia.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 4 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[On the starting line: Colombia launches Run for Life campaign]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A new interactive web game on displacement in Colombia, seeks to give participants a sense of what it means to be forced from home and to get the public, and private sector, more involved in addressing the issue.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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