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Energy from sunlight is now providing electricity to Syrian refugees at a camp in Jordan. The Azraq camp is the first in the world to completely operate on clean energy, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, or UNHCR. The new power center u
Laurie Kassman The latest World Refugee Survey issued by the U.S. Committee for Refugees estimates the global total of refugees and asylum seekers now reaches nearly 12 million. The survey this year h
June 20 is World Refugee Day. The United Nations General Assembly decided to create this day in 2000. It marks the 50th anniversary of the international convention relating to the status of refugees. The day is also Africa Refugee Day. A different th
Sara al-Matoura watched her daughter through a window as her daughters chest moved up and down under a tangle of medical wires. The mother from the Syrian city of Homs had not eaten for a day. She was up all night by her one-year-old daughters side a
Minnesota State Representative Ilhan Omar became a major partys candidate for the states 5th District in the United States Congress. Omar won the Democratic Partys primary election for the area on Tuesday. She is seeking to become the first refugee f
By Lisa Schlein The United Nations refugee agency is reporting growing violence against Sudanese refugees in and around camps in eastern Chad. The agency says steps are being taken to improve security
By Kane Farabaugh Utica, New York 27 August 2007 The loss of manufacturing jobs in the northeastern U.S. state of New York led to an economic decline in the 1970s. But war in Vietnam, and two decades later in the Balkans, as well as continued strife
The U.N. refugee agency says it welcomes a decision by the Ethiopian government to relax restrictions on Eritrean refugees. Agency officials say a new policy introduced by the government allows Eritrean refugees who can support themselves to live out
World Refugee Day Given Urgency by Arab Spring As the world marks UN Refugee Day on June 20, the number of people escaping violence across the Arab world is on the rise. Pro-democracy uprisings are being brutally suppressed in places like Libya and S
New Somali Refugee Camp Set to Open in Kenya 肯尼亚将为索马里难民开放新的营地 With more than 400,000 Somalis now in Dadaab, Kenya, the opening of a new refugee camp there is welcome news. Somalis begin moving to the Kambioos site Satu
DEVELOPMENT REPORT - New Head of U.N. Refugee Agency Chosen By Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, May 30, 2005 I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report. Angonio Guterres Antonio Guterr
By Lisa Schlein The U.N. Refugee Agency says large numbers of Congolese refugees have left Burundi and returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past few days. The UNHCR says it is not encou
By Lisa Schlein The U.N. refugee agency says its program to repatriate thousands of Liberian refugees after many years of exile is gathering momentum. The UNHCR says a first group of nearly 200 Liberi
今天我们要学的词是refugee。 Refugee, 是难民的意思。refugee camp 是难民营。外国人在南非受到攻击,造成数千人出逃。分析人士说, This is a classic refugee situation, 这是典型的难民情况。 最近,乍
By Phil Mercer Sydney 25 February 2008 A simulated refugee camp has been set up in Melbourne to show Australians the sort of hardship suffered by millions of people around the world. Refugee Realities is the work of the charity Oxfam. The camp is set
SHANGHAI, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Schindler' s list producer(制作人) Branko Lustig visited the Jewish Refugees Museum in Shanghai on Friday, announcing his plan to produce a movie about Jewish refugees in Shanghai during the Second World WarWith
CANBERRA, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Australian federal government(联邦政府) on Thursday announced it will immediately lift a freeze on the processing of claims from Afghanistan(阿富汗) asylum seekers. The six-month freeze on processing, whi
NAIROBI, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday there has been an outbreak of cholera in Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya, which is believed to have started among new arrivals who had most likely acquired it in Som
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A disabled Syrian refugee has been given the opportunity to carry the Olympic Flame through a refugee camp in Athens. Syrian bears Olympic Flame through refugee camp Ibrahim Al-Hussein, 27, is a freestyle swimmer, basketball player and former judo wr