Date: 25 September 2009

Elham roams aimlessly around the settlement of tents that is now her home. She claps her hands, mutters incomprehensibly and, from time to time, screams hysterically to nobody in particular.The six-year-old suffers from deep trauma, one of the many young victims of the fighting in northern Yemen bet

Date: 5 June 2009

[VIENNA, Austria, 4 June] – As more and more teenagers seek refugee status on their own in Central Europe, they are finding that asylum systems which cope well with adults do not always adequately meet their needs.That's one of the chief findings to emerge from the first eight months of the la

Date: 7 March 2008

[PRETORIA, 5 March 2008] – Life for any refugee can be difficult; life for a child refugee is doubly difficult. As one young refugee told the UN refugee agency: "We are always living in fear." That comment was heard as UNHCR conducted a series of groundbreaking workshops over the pas

Date: 10 January 2007

[COLOMBO, 9 January 2007] – More than 20,000 people have fled fighting and harsh conditions in the eastern Sri Lankan costal strip of Vaharai in the past three weeks, but despite reaching relative safety they still face many problems and an uncertain future."Everyone we have spo

Date: 12 September 2006

[WARSAW, Poland, 12 September 2006] – Schools around Europe opened their doors to millions of children earlier this month, including one special group of students keen to get back into the classroom but wondering how they will cope. These are children who have been forced to leave their h

Date: 16 May 2006

[BREIDJING CAMP, Chad, May 16 2006] – The UN refugee agency is receiving reports that the recruitment of Sudanese male refugees in camps in eastern Chad is continuing despite UNHCR's previous denunciation of such activities and repeated appeals to Chadian authorities to ensure that the civilia

Date: 20 April 2006

La cantidad de refugiados en el mundo ha disminuido dramáticamente en los últimos años, según un nuevo informe de las Naciones Unidas. En 2005 había cerca de 9,2 millones de refugiados, la menor cifra en 25 años. Esta disminución se debe, en gran medida, a la reducción de las guerras y

Date: 19 April 2006

[LONDON, 19 April 2006] – The number of refugees in the world has fallen to the lowest level in 25 years but new challenges have left the international system for dealing with human displacement at a pivotal point, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Office of the UN High Commis

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This report was undertaken by an eight-person team of experts who visited nine UNHCR operations around the world. It is an evaluation of UNHCR's activities in meeting the rights and protection needs of refugee children.