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Yemen: UN food agency airlifts supplies to flood victims |
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UN News Center - 29 October 2008
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has today airlifted 17 tons of high-energy biscuits to assist Yemenis affected by a tropical storm that struck last Thursday, killing 180 people and displacing some 10,000 others from their homes. |
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2008 Nansen Refugee Award to Mine Action Programme in southern Lebanon |
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BEIRUT – 15 September 2008
The British head of the UN Mine Action Programme in southern Lebanon
and his 990-member team of mine clearers will receive the 2008 Nansen Refugee
Award for their courageous work in removing tonnes of deadly munitions that had
prevented the safe return of hundreds of thousands of displaced people.
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Ant?nio Guterres announced that the annual
prize will go to Christopher Clark, the British coordinator of the UN-funded
programme and his international and Lebanese staff of nearly 1,000 civilian mine
clearers. |
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MESSAGE ON THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES 3 December 2008 |
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This year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities falls just a week before the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The United Nations is commemorating both under the theme, “Dignity and justice for all of us”. |
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