May 4 11
Flight & Expulsion Image shows Somalia refugee migration flow in 2008 This visualization attempts to give a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon of flight and expulsion, an ongoing issue of global scale and extreme complexity. Understanding refugees migration flows will help us united more families, more efficiently. Go to the fantastic website
Apr 26 11
Visualisation of Refugees by Country of Origin, 2000 – 2008. Check out Many Eyes and see more data visualised at different periods, it’s interesting to see. original data source : UNHCR
Apr 1 11
Refugees United in Uganda, Feb. 2011 – Part 1
Refugees United in Uganda, Feb. 2011 – Part 1 In early Feb 2011, David and I headed to Kampala, Uganda, with Rick Gershon from MediaStorm. Also joining us was RU ambassador Mads Mikkelsen. We set out to further document the life of Refugees United and our mobile refugee family tracing tools; a visual journey we had begun a few months prior at MediaStorm’s Brooklyn studios. MediaStorm, a brilliant multimedia production company, are great at finding, and telling, the compelling story. In our case, we decided to speak in-depth with some of the refugees searching for missing family through Refugees United,…
Mar 11 11
Juba, South Sudan, Feb. 8th 2011
Pushing 43 degrees Celsius, this is actually the “cold” season for South Sudan. Hairdryer hot is the first word that comes to my mind. Arriving in Juba on Feb. 7th for a short stay was a privileged invite to the birth of a new nation; exciting, with a dash of Bambi-legs. It shone clearly from the eyes of most officials who’d been official less than a few hours: “What the hell am I doing here?” Refugees United was in town with UNHCR Uganda, paying a visit to the UNHCR Sudan field office in Juba to discuss family tracing through Refugees…
Feb 14 11
Fleeing is never voluntary. This 30-second TV spot is meant to emphasize the message that asylum means survival. A house of matches set alight illustrates the idea of forced displacement. To learn more go to: unhrc.at – campaign to debunk asylum myths in Austria (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Feb 14 11
check out the UNHCR photostream on flickr it’s very informative with some amazing pictures
Jan 10 11
Video Report : Sudanese Refugees in Egypt 11-11-2010 (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Jan 10 11
Somali refugees: camps in crisis 2008 UNHCR faces a major challenge in finding solutions for newly arrived Somali refugees in the worlds biggest refugee camp, Dadaab, in Kenya. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Aug 20 10
East Africa Hosts Most Refugees Outside the Middle East
East Africa now hosts over a million refugees from East, Central and Southern Africa, the largest total figure in the world outside of the Middle East. According to the latest Global Trends report released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania alone host nearly 610,000 refugees with Kenya the most generous host in the region with nearly 360,000 refugees, mostly from Somalia. Kenya is now the fifth biggest host of refugees worldwide behind only Pakistan, Iran, Syria and Germany but well ahead of the United States on 275,500 and the UK on nearly 270,000. The…
Aug 16 10
Only God knows what will happen to us Men digging up the remains of their home in the Azakhel refugee camp near Peshawar, following the floods that have left so much of Pakistan in misery. (Photo: W. Schellenberg, UNHCR) AZKHEL VILLAGE, Pakistan, August 13 (UNHCR) – For 30 years, the Azakhel camp in north west Pakistan served as a welcome refuge for tens of thousands of refugees from the war in neighbouring Afghanistan. The settlement started as a cluster of makeshift tents but developed into a village with tea stalls, kebab sellers, fruit and vegetable shops and other small businesses.…
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