South Sudanese Returnees Board Plane for Journey Home Malakal, South Sudan. Today in Malakal, South Sudan, 150 returnees line up to board a plane chartered by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and bound for Wau. This week, IOM is arranging transport for over 700 people who have been staying in the Malakal Way Station. [...]
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World News Focus: Refugees
New York, N.Y. Syrian Refugee Crisis Straining Medical Resources As Syrians flee the conflict at home to refugee camps, U.N. aid agencies are struggling to provide much needed health services in those camps and in neighboring countries, a U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) report released on April 26 stated. Turkish doctor examines Syrian refugee child. UNHCR [...]
At Cipriani: 2012 Women Refugee Voices of Courage
New York, N.Y. Actress and humanitarian Liv Ullmann kicked off the Women’s Refugee Commission‘s 2012 Voices of Courage Awards luncheon at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City on May 4 with a story about a young boy she met in a refugee camp many years ago. He told her he only cried when it rained so he [...]
