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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Humanitarian Aid, Refugees
The top United Nations refugee official today wrapped up a three-day visit to Pakistan, during which the Government agreed to revise a plan for the repatriation of the nearly 2 million remaining Afghan refugees in the country that was due to end next year....
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Aug 28, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Humanitarian Aid, Refugees
The United Nations refugee agency expressed concern today over the worsening humanitarian crisis affecting people escaping conflict in Georgia, especially those fleeing the buffer zone between the breakaway region of South Ossetia and the town of Gori....
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Aug 28, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Humanitarian Aid, Refugees
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is helping to alleviate the situation in Bihar state in north-eastern India, where 1.4 million people have been affected by severe flooding....
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Aug 28, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Humanitarian Aid, Refugees
The United Nations is assisting foreigners displaced by xenophobic violence which swept South Africa earlier this year to return to their home countries....
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Aug 27, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Humanitarian Aid, Refugees
The United Nations is assisting foreigners displaced by xenophobic violence which swept South Africa earlier this year to return to their home countries....
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Aug 27, 2008
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United Nations officials in Haiti are working with local authorities across the south of the impoverished Caribbean country to help bring relief after Tropical Storm Gustav pummelled the nation with torrential rains and heavy winds....
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Aug 27, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Humanitarian Aid, Refugees
The United Nations food agency in Nepal announced today that it was mobilizing emergency aid for the 50,000 people forced to flee their homes by last week's severe flooding in the eastern region of the Asian nation....
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Aug 27, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Humanitarian Aid, Refugees
The United Nations food agency today announced the launch of a joint venture with the employees of industrial giant Unilever, who will donate a percentage of their pay to help combat child hunger in Pakistan....
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Aug 27, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Humanitarian Aid, Refugees
The United Nations relief chief will travel to Ethiopia next week to assess the situation in the Horn of Africa country first-hand, where millions of people need humanitarian aid because of a devastating drought and the soaring prices of many basic foods....
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Aug 26, 2008
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United Nations officials are working alongside local authorities in southern Chad to provide humanitarian assistance after flooding in and around the town of Sarh has left more than 10,000 people homeless....
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Aug 23, 2008
