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People Daily (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The refugee agency of United Nations has begun to distribute additional relief supplies to some 85,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who are living in camps in the northwest of Pakistan, a press release said Wednesday. This aid will help the IDPs, gathering some 13,600 families, to cope with the hardships of winter, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement....
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The refugee agency of United Nations has begun to distribute additional relief supplies to some 85,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who are living in camps in the northwest of Pakistan, a press release said Wednesday. This aid will help the IDPs, gathering some 13,600 families, to cope with the hardships of winter, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement....
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UNHCR (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
UNHCR chief António Guterres stresses commitment to prevention of sexual violence, saying it needs a personal as well as a collective response.
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Relief Web (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Date: 27 Nov 2009 Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
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Desertification (Free subscription) | yesterday
In coordination with Government authorities and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (<”http://www.unhcr.org/”>UNHCR), WFP is set to start distributions in Betou, Dongou, Enyelle and Impfondo districts of Likouala province in the Republic of Congo next week. An emergency distribution of 10 tons of rice and 1.5 tons of high energy biscuits already took place in Eboko (Betou district)...
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CICR (Free subscription) | yesterday
As the conflict in northern Yemen grows in intensity, civilians continue to pay the price. Many have had to flee their homes while many more are trapped in areas rocked by violence. Despite difficult security conditions, the ICRC is maintaining its aid effort.
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Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Well, the lady has been known to harbor opinions about things which go well beyond her cozy and idealistic world of glamour and showbiz! She has, in her capacity as the brand ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) been strongly opinionated about the alleged ‘apathy’ of the international community in terms of [...] Related posts: Why Angelina Jolie hates Barrack...
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Medical Humanities Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR VISITING RESEARCHERS IN 2011 Write a book, articles, an essay or your PhD thesis in a peaceful environment on the shore of the Lake of Geneva in 2011 Have the opportunity to meet other researchers from...
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Hollywood Crap (Free subscription) | yesterday
They’re gorgeous, talented and extremely generous! According to the Hollywood Reporter, Angelina Jolie, 34, and Brad Pitt, 45, donated a whopping $6.8 million to charitable organizations in 2008. The Jolie-Pitt Foundation, founded in 2006, donated $6.8 of the $13 million it raised last year to non-profits such as Global Health, Human Rights Watch, the Armed Services YMCA, and Pitt’s [...]...
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UNHCR (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
UNHCR?s top protection chief welcomes US focus on providing immigrants and asylum-seekers with an alternative to detention while their cases are processed.
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UNHCR (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
For humanitarian agencies such as UNHCR, there is a very complex and mixed picture of displacement in north-west Pakistan, including care and maintenance for the longer term displaced people, return and reintegration programmes and emergency response for new displacements such as those from South Waziristan. For this latter group, UNHCR is continuing to distribute tents to people in Dera Ismail Khan...
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UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has received the plaque of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in recognition of his role in supporting the organisation's activities in the field of international humani
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Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie founded their joint charity project, The Jolie-Pitt Foundation (JPF) back in 2006. From what I remember, both Brad and Angelina both made initial multi-million dollar investments in the foundation, and then donated the money People Magazine and Hello gave them for Shiloh’s first pictures. And then came the [...]
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Raw Story (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The Sri Lankan government has failed to make adequate welfare provision for the 136,000 Tamil civilians it plans to release from internment camps, rights activists and opposition parties said Sunday. Heeding international calls for the camps to be closed, the authorities said the remaining detainees -- held since the military finally crushed the Tamil Tiger rebels [...]