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    Educating girls changes the course of an entire society: Jawaher Al Qasimi

    07 Oct 2020

    Her Highness was speaking at a private virtual dialogue organised by UNHCR ahead of the unveiling of the overall winner of the 2020 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award.

    Syrian refugees need help now more than ever

    23 Jan 2021

    Last year I travelled to Jordan with UNHCR to meet Syrian refugees living in Azraq camp. I learnt so much from that visit, and I saw what it looks like to have resilience in the face of unimaginable difficulty.

    800 Syrians start leaving crowded Al Hol camp

    03 Jun 2019

    At least 17 buses were seen leaving the area in the first such transfer from Al Hol camp which is home to nearly 74,000 people, among them wives and children of

    KF donates 2,000 books to young Arab refugees, immigrants in Italy

    06 Apr 2019

    In the presence of Sheikha Bodour Bint Sultan Al Qasimi, Vice President of the International Publishers Association (IPA) and Founder and Chairperson of Kalimat Foundation for Children's Empowerment (KF) has distributed 2,000 books to 11 libraries across Italy.

    UN begins evacuating refugees from Libya to Niger

    19 Apr 2019

    The UN said on Friday it had evacuated 163 refugees from war-ravaged Libya to neighbouring Niger, but more than 3,000 others were still trapped in detention centres affected by clashes.

    Clashes erupt as Greek police stop migrants from reaching border

    07 Apr 2019

    Spurred by a false rumour about border openings that spread on social media, hundreds of migrants and refugees arrived and pitched tents on Thursday in a field next to the Diavata migrant camp near Greece's border with North Macedonia.

    Lockdowns pile job losses and hunger onto Syrian refugees' plight

    10 May 2020

    "Nobody will hire us anymore," said the 28-year-old, who lost his restaurant job a few months ago. He racked up hundreds of dollars in debt at the local minimarket getting food before the owner said he could borrow no more.

    Sultan Bin Ahmed, top officials support full-on COVID-19 fundraiser for refugees

    13 May 2020

    The global fundraiser led by TBHF will also offer food supplies to workers and families from different nationalities residing in the UAE who have been affected directly or indirectly by the spread of COVID-19.

    Sad plight of child refugees on Greek islands

    27 Nov 2019

    I have just come back from the Greek islands, and I was shocked by what I saw and by the accounts I heard from my colleagues on the ground. They told me about a 12-year-old boy

    Australia restricts medical transfer of refugees from Pacific camps

    04 Dec 2019

    Australia on Wednesday removed the right of doctors to order sick asylum seekers be evacuated from two remote Pacific detention centres for medical treatment, a repeal that opponents said risks the lives of refugees.

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