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Syria
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Syria Crisis: UNHCR urges European Union states to honour their asylum system principles

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South Sudan
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Sudanese refugees embrace Global Handwashing Day for disease control

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Crises stretch UNHCR's response capacity.

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Syria
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UNHCR steps up winter preparations for tens of thousands of Syrians

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Syria
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Syrian risks all to get his pregnant wife to safety in Jordan

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Worldwide Community of Resettled Refugees: Learn about a project by UNHCR and the University of Geneva.

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News Story: UNHCR starts moving Central African Republic refugees from flooded camps in Chad.

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News Story: Top Kenyan university opens campus next to world's largest refugee camp

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UNHCR on the ground in some of the world's worst trouble spots, making a difference to the lives of millions.

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My Life As A Refugee: On UNHCR's brand new app, wrestle with the dilemmas facing millions of refugees.

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Multimedia: Refugees from around the world tell their own stories.

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Crisis in Horn of Africa: Tens of thousands of Somalis are fleeing conflict and drought into Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya.

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Human Story

Telling the Human Story

Ahmed Din, who now manages a football team, says both countries and refugees gain from resettlement.

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Making a Difference

Making a Difference

UNHCR and local authorities hand over ownership of 400 new one-room homes to a fishing community in Pakistan left homeless by devastating floods in 2010.

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Setting the Agenda

Setting the Agenda

A new report investigates how refugees are faring in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde.

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