Reuters AlertNet Full site
Homepage | Newsdesk | NGO Latest | Crisis briefings | Country profiles | MediaWatch | Jobs | Alerting | Login
PHOTOS: World Refugee Day
17 Jun 2008 16:25:00 GMT
Source: AlertNet
 

Displaced Somali children stand beside their makeshift hut in a camp outside Mogadishu after torrential rains hit the area, June 15 2008. REUTERS/Omar Faruk ( SOMALIA)
REF: RTX6YPA



Refugees who fled the conflict in Sudan' s western Darfur region wait outside an aid distribution building at Djabal camp near Gos Beida in eastern Chad June 12, 2008. Reflecting the violence in Darfur that has swept in both directions across the Chad-Sudan border, there are 250,000 Sudanese refugees scattered in a dozen camps in eastern Chad and 180,000 internally displaced Chadians, U.N. officials say. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly ( CHAD)
REF: RTX6TVY



A refugee boy from Sudan's western Darfur draws pictures of shelters with a piece of charcoal at Djabal camp near Gos Beida in eastern Chad June 6, 2008. Refugees from conflict in Sudan's Darfur and Chad appealed to visiting U.N. Security Council envoys on Friday for more international protection so they can return to their homes. REUTERS/ Finbarr O'Reilly (CHAD)
REF: RTX6LJZ



An Afghan returnee girl watches as her parents wind thread in their mud house built with help from the Norwegian refugee council (NRC) in Ghorian district of Herat province, west of Kabul in this picture taken May 27, 2008. Many Afghan refugees struggle to rebuild their lives in their shattered homeland after spending years, sometimes decades, in Pakistan and Iran where they fled over the last 30 years of almost continual war. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood ( AFGHANISTAN)
REF: RTX6KCG



A Palestinian refugee lifts his cane as he sits in a street at Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip May 6, 2008. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA)
REF: RTR208SV



A general view shows a Palestinian refugee camp near the Iraqi-Syrian borders in Iraq, about 650 km (404 miles) west of Baghdad, April 14, 2008. The camp includes 1,930 Palestinian refugees, an official at the camp said. REUTERS/ Mohanned Faisal (IRAQ)
REF: RTR1ZJL6



Afghan children sit on a truck before departing Jalozai camp near Peshawar April 15, 2008. REUTERS/Ali Imam ( PAKISTAN)
REF: RTR1ZIM1



Palestinian children play outside their tent at a refugees camp near the Iraqi- Syrian borders, about 600 km (373 mile) west of Baghdad February 27, 2008. About 1800 Palestinian refugees live in tents at a camp on the Iraqi-Syrian borders from the Iraqi side, an employee of the U.N. refugee commission said. REUTERS/ Mohanned Faisal (IRAQ)
REF: RTR1XT36



An East Timorese child refugee brushes her teeth near her camp in Dili February 18, 2008. REUTERS/Beawiharta (EAST TIMOR)
REF: RTR1X8IE



Two children stand together as heavy rain falls at a temporary shelter for around 19,000 displaced people during post-election violence in Eldoret February 7, 2008. REUTERS/Georgina Cranston (KENYA)
REF: RTR1WSX2



A Pakistani refugee carries a bag of aid supplies he received from the Afghan government in the Jaji district of the south-eastern Paktia province, near the Afghan-Pakistan border January 27, 2008. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (AFGHANISTAN)
REF: RTR1WD15



A Bosnian refugee girl looks through the window of her home in a camp built between a coal mine and its waste heap near the town of Banovici January 10, 2008. As the Balkan state is negotiating its way to the EU, a group of refugees from the Serb part of the country still live in primitive shelters waiting to return to their pre-war homes. REUTERS/ Damir Sagolj (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)
REF: RTX5F4F



Shi'ite refugees who just arrived from Baquba wait for the distribution of relief supplies in an evacuation camp in Baghdad's Sadr City December 12, 2007. REUTERS/Kareem Raheem (IRAQ)
REF: RTX4O2B



A man walks through a refugee site for internally displaced people fleeing fighting and ethnic attacks near Gos Beida in eastern Chad June 11, 2008. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (CHAD)
REF: RTX6S6J



Displaced people protest on a bus during a march against violence in Bogota March 6, 2008. REUTERS/John Vizcaino (COLOMBIA)
REF: RTR1XZ7T



•  Refugees & displacement


Small country map
© 2004 Europa Technologies Ltd.
•  Afghanistan profile
· View map

•  Bosnia-Herzegovina profile
· View map

•  Chad profile
· View map

•  Colombia profile
· View map

•  East Timor profile
· View map

•  Iraq profile

•  Palestinian territories profile

•  Somalia profile

•  Sudan profile


•  Car bomb kills 11 in Iraqi capital

•  UNHCR prepares transition ahead while camps are closing

•  Uganda says LRA rebels fought south Sudan forces

•  Israel, Hamas agree to Gaza truce

•  Four-way race to head top migration agency IOM

•  World Refugee Day: Reflections from Chad
Refugees International - USA

•  Mount Elgon, Kenya: A terrorised population in desperate need of assistance
MSF International

•  Involving Children Makes Africa A Better Place: Adults Benefit from Children Being More Involved in Decision-making
Save the Children - Sweden

•  Providing refuge after the storm: Cyclone survivors in Myanmar receive temporary shelter and water
CWS

•  World Vision report reveals exploitve child labor throughout Latin America
WV - USA


Disclaimers |  Copyright |  Privacy |  Contact Us |  Feedback |  About Us |  RSS XML

Last updated:Tue Jun 17 16:46:18 2008