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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees



Primary web addresses
http://www.unhcr.ch/
Main Address
UNHCR
C.P. 2500
1211 Geneva 2
Country
Switzerland
Main Telephone
+41-22-739-8111
Joined OneWorld
05.11.2002

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Zbigniew, a known activist in Solidarity in Poland, arrived in Chicago in 1982. "I am thankful to have escaped and to be living in the United States."
01.07.2008 You are living in great danger and must flee your country. Will you survive? Test yourself.
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Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [United Nations] [Internet] [Refugees]
Image: Zbigniew, a known activist in Solidarity in Poland, arrived in Chicago in 1982. "I am thankful to have escaped and to be living in the United States."
Colombian refugees in Panama
17.06.2008 There were 11.4 million refugees outside their countries and 26 million others displaced internally by conflict or persecution at the end of last year, according to new figures from the UN refugee agency.
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Image: Colombian refugees in Panama © Noticias Aliadas / Latinamerica Press
18.03.2008 A five-year downward trend in asylum applications in industrialised countries was reversed in 2007, largely because of an increase in the number of Iraqi asylum-seekers, according to provisional statistics compiled by the UN refugee agency.
+ Carnage and Despair in Iraq
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Related topics/regions: [Iraq]