The United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is using capoeira as a leisure activity and a tool for social cohesion in a refugee camp in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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The mandate of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is to protect refugees, secure lasting solutions to their problems and ensure the application of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.

For more information about UNHCR and its activities, visit www.unhcr.org/afr/.

 

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