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<title><![CDATA[Dutch National Postcode Lottery donates 1.35 million euros to UNHCR]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The Dutch Postcode Lottery donates 1.35 million euros to the UN refugee agency. The funds will be used in UNHCR projects around the world.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dutch lottery donates 1.4 million euros for UNHCR projects this year]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The Dutch National Postcode Lottery donates 1.4 million euros to the UN refugee agency for use in projects around the world this year.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dutch National Postcode Lottery donates 1 million euros to UNHCR]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The Dutch National Postcode Lottery donates 1 million euros to support the global work of the UN refugee agency.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Netherlands signs accord to use UNHCR Refworld research tool]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The Netherlands signs an agreement that will make it the first country to use UNHCR's Refworld as its main research tool in determining asylum claims.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[More than 5,000 refugees resettled from Nepal]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[More than 5,000 refugees from Bhutan have left camps in Nepal for resettlement countries so far this year. The United States has accepted the largest numbers.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Barbara Hendricks highlights refugee issues at Hague concert]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR Honorary Lifetime Goodwill Ambassador Barbara Hendricks puts the spotlight on refugee issues at an annual jazz festival in The Hague.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Q&A: Sudanese returnees benefit from Dutch lottery funds]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The Dutch National Postcode Lottery is one of UNHCR's most generous private sector donors. The Lottery's communications adviser, Birgit Deuss, visited South Sudan to see how the organization's money was helping returnees.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Resettled African refugees arrive in Amsterdam]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A group of Congolese and Burundese refugees has arrived in the Netherlands, ready to start new lives under the country's resettlement programme.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 3 Aug 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dutch Postcode Lottery donates 2 million euro to UNHCR]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Returnees to South Sudan and refugees in Bangladesh and Ethiopia will be the beneficiaries of donations from the Dutch Postcode Lottery (NPL) to UNHCR and its NGO partners in the Netherlands. At its yearly...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 2 Feb 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dutch lottery funds for projects in Sudan, Bangladesh and Ethiopia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Holland's National Postcode Lottery has awarded 4.4 million euros to the "Safe in Southern Sudan" project run by UNHCR and three of its partners. The charity lottery also donated 1.3 million euros in unearmarked funds to the UN refugee agency, which will use the money in Bangladesh and Ethiopia.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees from Myanmar get a crash course on Dutch culture, society]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[When a group of 35 refugees from Myanmar flew to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport earlier this year, they were schooled in how to deal with the culture shock of living in a new and strange country. They had taken part in a special cultural orientation course in two Thai refugee settlements.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High Commissioner to visit the Netherlands]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ High Commissioner António Guterres will make an official visit to the Netherlands on June 28-29. He is scheduled to meet the Prime Minister, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, and senior...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dutch lottery helps refugees in Nepal combat global warming]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Global warming is a worldwide concern, whether for Bhutanese refugees in Nepal or Dutch consumers in their homes. A unique project, launched in the Netherlands on Friday, is bringing these two groups and many others together to help meet the challenge.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 3 Feb 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Resettled Colombians go Dutch]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A first group of Colombian refugees resettled from Ecuador is currently undergoing orientation in the Netherlands, where they hope to start a peaceful new life and to contribute to their host country.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dutch minister launches online refugee education kit]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Dutch education minister Maria van der Hoeven has launched "Refugee for a day", a kit by UNHCR and <em>Stichting Vluchteling</em> that aims to teach primary school children about the lives and experiences of refugee children, through stories of kids who escaped war and violence in Liberia and fled to Sierra Leone.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dutch National Postcode Lottery makes unearmarked 1 million euro donation]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday, UNHCR received an unearmarked 1 million euro donation from the National Postcode Lottery (NPL), the main charity lottery in the Netherlands. This is the third time that the NPL has given financial...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dutch lottery donates 1 million euros to UNHCR]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The National Postcode Lottery, the main charity lottery in the Netherlands, is supporting the UN refugee agency's work for the third year in a row. One of NPL's beneficiaries, <em>Stichting Vluchteling</em>, has also contributed generously to UNHCR's tsunami relief efforts.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Contribution from Dutch lottery]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday, we received a 2.125 million euro donation from the National Postcode Lottery (NPL), the main charity lottery in the Netherlands, for a joint project in Sierra Leone of UNHCR and its main Dutch...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dutch lottery awards 2.2 million euros to UNHCR project in Sierra Leone]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[In a show of support to the UN refugee agency's work, the main charity lottery in The Netherlands has awarded 2.2 million euros to a joint project in Sierra Leone of UNHCR and its Dutch NGO partner.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dutch public experience refugee life in the heart of Amsterdam]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Two filmmakers have opened a window to the life of Chechen refugees in Ingushetia by screening their documentary film, "Sheltered Life", in a UNHCR refugee tent in Amsterdam's Leidseplein Square.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2003 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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