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Syria refugee numbers cross 1.5 million as funding gaps remain

Press Release  17 May 2013

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The number of Syrian refugees who have now left their country has surpassed 1.5 million. The Syrian conflict continues to have a devastating impact on the lives of those who are forced to flee.

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UNHCR report shows health services for Syrian refugees increasingly overstretched

Press Release  26 April 2013

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A UN refugee agency report released on Friday warns that the Syria refugee crisis is increasingly straining health services in surrounding countries, while refugees are facing increasing difficulties in accessing the quality treatment they need – particularly those with chronic and other costly health conditions.

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UNHCR chief warns Security Council of "terrifying" situation for Syria

18 April 2013

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UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, warned the United Nations Security Council today that without an end to the fighting soon, almost half of Syria's 20.8 million people could be in need of humanitarian help by the end of this year.

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UNHCR fears for safety of growing number of returning Syrian refugees

Press Release  12 April 2013

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Over the past ten days, an average of three hundred Syrian refugees have been returning home from Jordan each day to villages close to the border in the governorate of Daraa. A sizeable part of this governorate remains a battleground, and UNHCR fears for the safety of the returnees, the vast majority being families.

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Recent tribal clashes in Darfur displace 50,000 into Chad

Press Release  12 April 2013

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In southeastern Chad, UNHCR staff are reporting the arrival of some 50,000 refugees from southwestern Darfur during the last week. During the last two months, clashes have now displaced over 74,000 people into Chad including Sudanese and Chadians - who lived as refugees in the conflict zone.

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Number of refugees from Central African Republic approaches 40,000 mark

Press Release  05 April 2013

Refugees from Central African Republic © UNHCR/D.Mbaiorem
© UNHCR/D.Mbaiorem

The UN refugee agency reports that the number of civilians fleeing instability in Central African Republican has risen to almost 40,000 and people continue to cross borders and seek shelter in neighbouring countries.

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UN High Commissioner for Refugees welcomes new global arms trade treaty

Press Release  04 April 2013

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres © UNHCR
© UNHCR

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres today applauded the approval on Tuesday by the UN General Assembly of a global arms trade treaty.

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UNHCR delivers urgent aid as death toll rises after fire in Thailand refugee camp

© UNHCR/K.Santidhanyaroj
© UNHCR/K.Santidhanyaroj

In Thailand, the death toll from last Friday’s fire at a refugee camp on the border with Myanmar has risen to thirty seven. In addition, 2,300 people lost their homes.

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UNHCR renews appeal for safe passage of humanitarian convoys in Syria

Press Release  26 March 2013

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© UNHCR

UNHCR is today reiterating its appeal to all parties to ensure safe passage for convoys delivering humanitarian aid to civilians inside Syria. In the current security environment, several convoys have had to be cancelled or delayed. This is depriving many Syrians of vitally needed help.

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UNHCR’s Guterres: Syria refugees reach one million

06 March 2013

Syrian refugee women © UNHCR/N.Daoud
© UNHCR/N.Daoud

Data received from UNHCR’s offices in the Syria region shows that the number of Syrians either registered as refugees or being assisted as such has now reached the one million mark.

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UNHCR seeks US$70 million to help displaced Congolese in Great Lakes area

Press release  05 March 2013

Congolese refugees © UNHCR/S.Modola
© UNHCR/S.Modola

The extra funding is needed to help more than 600,000 people in four countries this year, including the internally displaced, refugees and returnees.

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UNHCR: Reconciliation effort needed to avoid long-term Mali displacement

Press release  01 March 2013

Father and son in Bamako. © UNHCR/G.Gordon
© UNHCR/G.Gordon

Almost two months on in Mali from the French intervention, UNHCR is continuing to see large numbers of internally displaced people, while in surrounding countries the numbers of refugees are still high and in some cases increasing. 

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UNHCR leader warns of moment of truth for Syria, risk of unmanageable crisis

Press release  28 February 2013

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UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres on Wednesday 27 February warned that a “moment of truth” was approaching in Syria and that the international community must not allow the situation to deteriorate further.

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UN High Commissioner for Refugees says regional effort needed to reduce Indian Ocean death toll

Press Release  26 February 2013

Boats on river in Rakhine state, Myanmar. © UNHCR/V.Tan
© UNHCR/V.Tan

UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, today reiterated his call for countries in the Asia Pacific region to work together to tackle a recent increase in lives being lost among people smuggled by boat in the Indian Ocean.

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UNHCR calls for urgent action to prevent Rohingya boat tragedies

22 February 2013

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UNHCR is concerned about a rising numbers of deaths in the Indian Ocean involving people fleeing their countries for safety and better lives elsewhere. This includes many Rohingya from Myanmar.

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Hepatitis E toll rises to more than 100 in South Sudan refugee camps

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In South Sudan UNHCR is seeing a large number of Hepatitis E cases in refugee camps near the border with Sudan.

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Second UNHCR aid convoy reaches northern Syria

Press Release  13 February 2013

UNHCR humanitarian aid convoy reaches thousands of internally displaced people living in makeshift camps in the Azzas area of northern Syria.
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UNHCR today completed its second aid delivery into north-west Syria, where thousands of internally displaced people are in acute need of humanitarian help. 

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Mali: Refugees still fleeing, internal return prospects mixed

Press Release  01 February 2013

This two-year-old child fled to Bamako with her extended family in April to escape fighting in Gao, where her father was killed by rebels.
© UNHCR/H.Caux

In Mali, the fast-evolving situation in the north of the country has raised hopes that many displaced people will be able to go back to their homes soon. 

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UNHCR humanitarian aid convoy reaches displaced people in northern Syria

Press Release  01 February 2013

The displaced people in the Azzas area are receiving winter emergency relief, like these vulnerable Syrian civilians.
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UNHCR has this week completed a first delivery of winter emergency relief to the Azzas area of northern Syria where thousands of internally displaced people are living in makeshift camps.

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MALI urgent humanitarian help needed as war expands, wide reports of human rights abuses

Press Release  25 January 2013

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UNHCR is renewing its appeal for an urgent scaling up of international aid for the hundreds of thousands of people now displaced by the war in Mali. This is to prevent a worsening of the now acutely fragile humanitarian situation across the Sahel. 

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