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    Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA, pronounced /ˈʌnrə/ UN-rə) is a UN agency that supports the relief and human...
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  • the extent of postwar needs and the Middle East Relief and Refugee Administration, which the British set up to operate refugee camps. President Franklin...
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    Refugee Organization (IRO) was founded on 20 April 1946, and took over the functions of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration,...
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  • comprehensively with all aspects of refugees' lives. Preceding this was the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, which was established in 1944...
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    States Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212) is an amendment to the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the Migration and Refugee Assistance...
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    The 2013 Middle East cold snap, also referred to as Alexa, refers to the winter storm that hit the Middle East region in December 2013, affecting Syria...
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  • United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is a relief and human development agency, providing education,...
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  • Bank and the Gaza Strip. In 2019 more than 5.6 million Palestinian refugees were registered with the United Nations. In 1949, the United Nations Relief and...
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    The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), also known as Rojava, is a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria. It consists...
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  • the biggest arms sellers to the Middle-East and North-Africa, fueling the conflicts in the region that have led refugees to flee their homes. In other words...
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  • and Eastern Europe 1989: humanitarian aid for East German refugees in Budapest 1994–1996: Aid to Rwanda 1999: Kosovo War Since 2001: Emergency relief...
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  • Refugees of the Syrian civil war are citizens and permanent residents of Syria who have fled the country in the course of the Syrian civil war. The pre-war...
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    for administrating Palestinian refugee camps, is the Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In 2010, Al-Wihdat was...
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  • for Orphaned Armenian Relief in Anchorage. In her academic research, Kabranian has pursued her interest in refugee rights and social justice. Together...
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    refugees in June 1951, according to the Report of the Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East published...
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  • United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from 1996 to 2005. After completing graduate and postgraduate studies...
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  • Minor origin to be 1,164,267.[citation needed] Some refugees had moved to Russia and the Middle East in previous years. Approximately 250,000 Greek Americans...
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    the refugees, and managing funds and contributions intended for them. GAPAR, with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in...
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  • of them bishops) and 10 lay people. Initially founded as the War Relief Services, the agency's original purpose was to aid the refugees of war-torn Europe...
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    Doreen Warriner (category Academics of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies)
    English development economist and humanitarian. In October 1938, she journeyed to Czechoslovakia to assist anti-Nazi refugees fleeing the Sudetenland, recently...
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  • international relations; for example, assigning policy related to the Middle East peace process to senior advisor Jared Kushner. Former ExxonMobil CEO...
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  • programs for refugees and immigrants, and initiatives for the elderly, abandoned, and neglected. CNEWA helps provide emergency relief, such as food packages...
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    a previous refugee camp in the region. The camp was established over 372 dunams of land that was leased to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency...
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    Situation in the Gaza Strip". United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. United Nations. 7 October 2023. Archived from...
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    Coordinator's Office in Palestine. Zomlot was born in Shaburah refugee camp, a United Nations Relief and Works Agency camp in Rafah in the occupied Gaza Strip...
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  • British cities affected by The Blitz, and refugee camps throughout north-west Europe, the Balkans and the Middle-East. One of its teams was also amongst...
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    UN relief workers into the marshlands or the people out. A large scale government offensive attack against the refugees estimated 10,000 fighters and 200...
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    Pakistan Thailand Middle East Jordan Lebanon Palestine Syria In 2017, DanChurchAid spent DKK 577.7 million on developmental and catastrophe relief aid across...
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  • Palestinians in Lebanon (category Palestinian diaspora in the Middle East)
    300,000 in 2011. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) reported 489,292 registered Palestine refugees as of March 2023 but estimated that...
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    as specified by international and federal law. People who seek protection while outside the U.S. are termed refugees, while people who seek protection...
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