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Article: UN Refugee Agency launches budget appeal for 2007
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- December 8, 2006
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UN Refugee Agency launches budget appeal for 2007
GENEVA, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on
Friday that it needs 1.06 billion U.S. dollars next year to help
millions of people fleeing persecution and conflicts around the
world.
"A billion dollars sounds like a lot of money but it is equivalent
to just a dollar a week for each of the 21 million people we help,"
Antonio Guterres, the UN high commissioner for refugees, said in a
statement.
The annual appeal aims to help some 8.6 million refugees, 6.6
million internally displaced persons, some 1.6 million returnees,
770,000 asylum seekers and 2.3 million stateless people, the
statement said.
The UNHCR's largest ...