Category: Humanitarians

Photos: ActionPress/Virot Text : Celhia de Lavarene For the last 14 years the Norwegian Refugees Council’s International Displacing Monitoring Centre has been monitored internal displacement resulting from conflict and violence across the world. Today in Geneva the report for 2011 was released in presence of António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Elisabeth Rasmussen, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Secretary General Elisabeth Rasmussen. According to the report: – Global Overview; People internally displaced by conflict ad violence, the…

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New York, Apr 12 2012 4:10PM The United Nations refugee agency on Wednesday launched the first flight in an expanded programme of visits for long-separated Sahrawi families in the Tindouf camps of Algeria and in the territory of Western Sahara. According to a news release issued by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a Boeing 737 aircraft transported 150 visiting relatives from Western Sahara to the camps in Algeria, and returned carrying 137 Sahrawi refugees from the Tindouf…

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