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UNHCR begins airlifting aid to Kabul (UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)

Public Technologies 02 Nov 2021
The UNHCR-chartered plane took off from Sharjah earlier today, arriving in Kabul at 15.30 hours local time (1200 hours Geneva time), carrying 33 tons of winterization kits for displaced Afghans. It was the first of three UNHCR flights, with the next two scheduled to land in the Afghan capital on 4 and 7 November.
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UNHCR begins airlifting aid to Kabul

UNHCR 02 Nov 2021
The UNHCR-chartered plane took off from Sharjah earlier today, arriving in Kabul at 15.30 hours local time (1200 hours Geneva time), carrying 33 tons of winterization kits for displaced Afghans. It was the first of three UNHCR flights, with the next two scheduled to land in the Afghan capital on 4 and 7 November.
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UNHCR Serbia Update, September 2021

Reliefweb 01 Nov 2021
8,978 newcomers to governmental centres were registered in September (vs. 7,101 in August). Twenty-eight percent of all arrivals originate from Afghanistan ... .
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UNHCR Turkey Operational Update, September 2021

Reliefweb 01 Nov 2021
105,700 Calls received on the UNHCR Counselling Line in September constituting a 64% increase in the average monthly calls for 2021. UNHCR responded to 31,000 calls, the majority of which came from Syrian ...
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WHO, UNHCR to provide more health services to Afghan refugees in Iran

Tehran Times 01 Nov 2021
TEHRAN – The World Health Organization plans to boost support to Iran in delivering health care services to the Afghan community, as well as the host population in the country, orchestrated in collaboration with UNHCR ... .
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Kuwaiti Youtuber raises 1M dollars for refugees in just 28 hours

The Siasat Daily 01 Nov 2021
A Youtube star from Kuwait, who is famously known in the Arab world as Abo Flah, has raised more than one million dollars for refugees in the region with a donation campaign in cooperation with the UNHCR ... The Youtuber, whose actual name is Hassan Suleiman ... الحمدلله دائماً وابداً ❤️ ... .
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UNHCR Yemen Operational Update - Covering the Period 20 - 30 October 2021

Reliefweb 31 Oct 2021
UNHCR recently [issued}8https.//www.refworld.org/docid/6171436e4.html) an update on its position on returns to Yemen, superseding its previous update issued in April 2015 ... UNHCR plans to distribute USD 69 million in cash assistance to some 188,000 households by the end of 2021.
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UNHCR welcomes U.S. renewed effort to end policy that endangers asylum-seekers (UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)

Public Technologies 30 Oct 2021
© UNHCR/Tim Gaynor. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the U.S ... UNHCR has continuously expressed its serious concerns about this program and its impact on asylum-seekers' safety and security and their due process rights.
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UNHCR welcomes U.S. renewed effort to end policy that endangers asylum-seekers

Reliefweb 30 Oct 2021
© UNHCR/Tim Gaynor. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the U.S ... UNHCR has continuously ... In Washington, Kevin Keen, keen@unhcr.org, +1 202 914 8172.
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The Government of Rwanda, the African Union, and UNHCR Agree to Continue the Evacuation of ...

APO 30 Oct 2021
After their arrival, UNHCR will continue to pursue durable solutions for the evacuees ... UNHCR will provide protection services and necessary humanitarian assistance including food, water, accommodation, education, and healthcare ... UNHCR and the Ministry in charge of Emergency ...
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Warming climate threatens livelihoods of Malian refugees and Mauritanians (UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)

Public Technologies 30 Oct 2021
© UNHCR/Colin Delfosse ... © UNHCR/Colin Delfosse ... © UNHCR/Colin Delfosse ... © UNHCR/Colin Delfosse ... © UNHCR/Colin Delfosse ... © UNHCR/Colin Delfosse ... UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is working with the local authorities to address their predicament and that of their hosts ... UNHCR - Office of the ...
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Climate Refugees: A Growing Crisis

OWP 30 Oct 2021
The UNHCR reports how these communities struggle to adapt to the increasingly hostile environments, which are being hit with increasing intensity and frequency by disasters triggered by climate change ... The UNHCR describes how refugees, internally displaced people, and the stateless are on the frontlines of the climate emergency.
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