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Article: UN Iraqi refugee program at risk due to funding crisis
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- May 10, 2008
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UN Iraqi refugee program at risk due to funding crisis
GENEVA, May 9 (Xinhua) -- The UN refugee agency said Friday that
its programs to help Iraqi refugees are at risk due to a grave
funding crisis.
The Geneva-based United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) said it would be short of 127 million dollars by the end of
the year for programs to help some 4.7 million displaced Iraqi
refugees.
"We will not be able to help hundreds of thousands of the most
vulnerable Iraqi refugees and internally displaced if we do not
receive funding for ...
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