UN Assists Sudanese Refugees Fleeing Conflict The U.N. refugee agency continues emergency airlifts to aid thousands of refugees fleeing fighting in Sudan. The fighting between government forces and rebels is taking place in two Sudanese states Blue N...
US Pledges Aid for Drought-Stricken Somali Refugees With the drought in Somalia officially declared a famine, the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, was in the Dadaab refugee camps of Kenya to pledge Ameri...
SHANGHAI, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Schindler' s list producer(制作人) Branko Lustig visited the Jewish Refugees Museum in Shanghai on Friday, announcing his plan to produce a movie about Jewish refugees in Shanghai during the Second World WarWith...
June 20 is World Refugee Day. The United Nations General Assembly decided to create this day in 2000. It marks the 50th anniversary of the international convention relating to the status of refugees. The day is also Africa Refugee Day. A different th...
The UN Children's Fund warns thousands of Ivorian refugees(难民,逃难者), who have fled to Liberia, are threatened by disease outbreaks. UNICEF says cramped living conditions are increasing health and protection risks for children and women....
今天我们要学的词是refugee。 Refugee, 是难民的意思。refugee camp 是难民营。外国人在南非受到攻击,造成数千人出逃。分析人士说, This is a classic refugee situation, 这是典型的难民情况。 最近,乍...
Hundreds of thousands of southern Sudanese who fled their homeland during Sudan's civil war are signing up to vote absentee in the January 9 independence referendum. Former war orphans, the so-called 'Lost Boys', are leading the absentee vote campaig...
CANBERRA, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Australian federal government(联邦政府) on Thursday announced it will immediately lift a freeze on the processing of claims from Afghanistan(阿富汗) asylum seekers. The six-month freeze on processing, whi...
The U.N. refugee agency says it welcomes a decision by the Ethiopian government to relax restrictions on Eritrean refugees. Agency officials say a new policy introduced by the government allows Eritrean refugees who can support themselves to live out...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Manute Bol played ten years in the National Basketball Association. But he will be remembered as much for his shot-blocking in the NBA as for his charity work in Sudan. He died June nineteenth from...