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Q&A: Shading tree education gave Lost Boy start in life
19 Oct 2007 John Dau is one of the so-called Lost Boys of Sudan. Dau, who spent years on the run and in refugee camps, was resettled in the United States in 2001. He tells how access to education transformed his life as a refugee. -
Clinton Global Initiative hails ninemillion campaign as a good cause
1 Oct 2007 Former United States President Bill Clinton has called for renewed action to help millions of vulnerable children obtain an education. At the annual summit of his Global Initiative last week, Clinton urged people to support UNHCR's ninemillion campaign which seeks to ensure education for all refugee children by 2010. -
Iraq situation deteriorates further; US gives $30 million to aid education
28 Aug 2007 The UN refugee agency warned on Tuesday that the humanitarian situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate with the number of displaced Iraqis, both inside and outside the country, rising. The US, meanwhile, announced a grant of US$30 million towards educating refugee children in host countries. -
Q&A: Jordanian brings resettled refugee children together on the soccer pitch
4 May 2007 Luma Mufleh grew up in Jordan and emigrated to the United States. In 2004, she started the Fugees, a soccer team for refugee youth in Clarkston, a small town in the southern US state of Georgia. Coaching for six seasons, she has brought together players from diverse backgrounds and worked to find support for her team. -
Roma head for Sweden to escape extreme poverty, alleged discrimination in Hungary
12 Dec 2006 Members of Hungary's Roma community have been seeking asylum in Sweden in unprecedented numbers in recent months, pleading poverty and alleging widespread discrimination in labour and education in the eastern European nation. -
On American plains, refugees receive a warm welcome in a cold climate
5 Dec 2006 More than 200 refugees have come to Sioux Falls in the US state of South Dakota this year. Most are reunited with family. Others arrive knowing no one. For all of them, the towering figure of David Jal, his forehead etched with the tribal scars of his native Sudan, is a reassuring presence. -
Hungarian refugee crisis presented Ireland with a new challenge
6 Nov 2006 The Hungarian refugee crisis of 1956 provided a new challenge for Ireland, an impoverished country whose own people had been leaving by the hundreds of thousands in search of a brighter future overseas. The country was one of the 37 nations to accept Hungarians for resettlement. -
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Hungarian uprising and refugee crisis
23 Oct 2006 The 1956 uprising, and the extraordinary refugee relief and resettlement operation that it spawned, helped shape the way humanitarian organisations - not least UNHCR - were to deal with refugee crises for decades to come. -
United States to open doors to thousands of Burundian refugees
18 Oct 2006 The United States has agreed to resettle thousands of Burundian refugees who fled their homeland in 1972. The offer applies to some 13,000 Burundians presently in Tanzania and it will be one of the largest group resettlements proposed by UNHCR in recent years.