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World Refugee Day: My 18th Anniversary

Victoria Uwonkunda | Posted 20.08.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Rwanda Genocide, Rwanda, Norway, Kenya, Internally Displaced Persons, World Refugee Day, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Refugees, UK Politics News
Victoria Uwonkunda

Today marks World Refugee Day. Today is a reminder for us to think about the 15 millions of people who aren't as lucky as we are, those mothers, fathers and children who can't go back to the homes they were forced to flee and loved ones they had to leave behind.

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Helping 100,000 Refugees Find Missing Family

David and Christopher Mikkelsen | Posted 02.07.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: Refugees Untied, Online Family Tracing, Mobile Phone Family Tracing, Social Innovation, Ericsson, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Refugees, UK Impact, UK-Innovation, UK Tech News
David and Christopher Mikkelsen

On 23 April, Refugees United passed a significant milestone in its short history: The one hundredth thousand refugee in search of missing family registered onto our family tracing platform. One hundred thousand. One hundred thousand lives touched. One hundred thousand refugees separated from family members during their escape from conflict.

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