(Source: UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warmly welcomes today's announcement by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of the refugees who will compete as a team in the upcoming 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. They include two Syrian swimmers, two judokas from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and six runners from Ethiopia and South Sudan. They all fled violence and persecution in their countries and sought refuge in places as wide-ranging as Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Kenya and Brazil. The initiative to send a refugee team to the Rio...
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