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Some 27,000 children stranded in Al-Hawl camp in Syria
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], January 30 (ANI/Sputnik): UN Under-Secretary-General for Counter-Terrorism Vladimir Voronkov said on Friday that some 27,000 children remain stranded in the Al-Hawl refugee camp in northeastern Syria, despite the efforts undertaken over the past years to repatriate them.
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Bangladesh relocates 1,778 Rohingya refugees from Cox's Bazar to Bhasan Ch
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], January 29 (ANI): The Bangladesh government on Friday relocated 1,778 Rohingya refugees from Cox's Bazar to Bhasan Char.
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Uyghur refugee shares her 3-year of harrowing ordeal in Chinese 're-educat
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Paris [France], January 18 (ANI): As reports confirming the human rights abuses on Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang region continue to surface, Gulbahar Haitiwaji, an Uyghur woman who was lured back to Beijing from France only to be arrested, has recounted her harrowing experience in the "re-educ
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Massive fire at Bangladesh's Rohingya camp leaves hundreds of refugees hom
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], January 14 (ANI): A massive fire broke out at the Nayapara Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar, leaving hundreds of people homeless.
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West Pakistan Refugees from J-K meets Jitendra Singh, thank PM Modi for gr
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 7 (ANI): West Pakistan Refugees Action Committee from Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday met Union Minister Jitendra Singh and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for granting them citizenship rights "after a long wait of over seven decades", according to the Ministry
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Over 490 refugees return to Nagorno-Karabakh over past day, says Russian D
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 27 (ANI/Sputnik): More than 490 refugees have returned to Nagorno-Karabakh over the past day, the Russian Ministry of Defence said on Saturday.
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Killing of Pakistani dissidents dangerous trend, UNHRC needs to wake up, s
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], December 26 (ANI): The killing of Pakistani dissidents abroad is a dangerous trend that needs to be stopped and multilateral agencies such as the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) also need to wake up to the
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Over 500 refugees return to Nagorno-Karabakh in last 24 hours, says Russia
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 26 (ANI/Sputnik): More than 500 refugees have returned to the breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh within the past 24 hours with assistance from Russian peacekeepers, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday.
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Free Balochistan Movement expresses concern over death of Karima Baloch
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan], December 23 (ANI): The Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) in a statement expressed grave concerns over the sudden death of Banuk Karima Baloch, the former chairperson of Baloch Student Organisation-Azad (BSO-Azad) and also condemned the murder of two Baloch refugees in Afghan
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UN refugee agency appeals for urgent support to ease Ethiopia's crisis
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], December 23 (ANI/Xinhua): The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, together with 30 humanitarian partners, on Tuesday appealed for 156 million US dollars to meet "the critical humanitarian needs" of Ethiopian refugees fleeing the Tigray conflict through the
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UN allocates over USD 35 million to aid refugees leaving Tigray region
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], December 18 (ANI/Sputnik): The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has allocated USD 35.6 million to provide humanitarian assistance to people fleeing the ongoing fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region, the OCHA said in a statement on Thursday.
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Sanjay Dutt's Torbaaz gets exceptional response worldwide
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 17 (ANI/NewsVoir): Torbaaz, starring Sanjay Dutt and helmed by award-winning director Girish Malik, was premiered on Netflix over the weekend. It is a heart-warming story about refugee children in Afghanistan who are the first victims of terrorism.
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