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<title><![CDATA[Surviving in the city]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A new report, "Surviving in the City," examines the innovative ways in which UNHCR has responded to the massive influx of refugees in urban areas of the Middle East.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nansen Award winners distribute cows to Lebanese farmers]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The mine clearers who won this year's Nansen Refugee Award use the prize money to launch a cattle distribution programme for villagers in south Lebanon.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mine clearers receive Nansen Award for "heroic" work in Lebanon]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR chief praises "heroic" work of mine clearers in southern Lebanon after presenting them with this year's Nansen Refugee Award.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Q&A: Nansen Award winners clear South Lebanon of clusterbombs]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Chris Clark, this year's co-winner of the prestigious Nansen Refugee Award, discusses the role of mine clearers in ridding South Lebanon of clusterbombs.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 3 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nansen Award: The challenges and rewards of a Lebanese mine clearer]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Mine clearers in southern Lebanon know that their job is very dangerous, but it gives them immense satisfaction to help their neighbours.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mine Action Programme in southern Lebanon wins Nansen Award]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday in Beirut, UNHCR announced that the British head of the UN Mine Action Programme in southern Lebanon (Chris Clark) and his 990-member team of mostly Lebanese mine clearers, will receive the...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2008 Nansen Refugee Award to Mine Action Programme in southern Lebanon]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Monday, 15 Sept. 2008 BEIRUT - The British head of the UN Mine Action Programme in southern Lebanon and his 990-member team of mine clearers will receive the 2008 Nansen Refugee Award for their courageous...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nansen Award: Mine clearers help Lebanese farmers rebuild their lives]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Clusterbombs scattered bomblets over large areas of land in southern Lebanon in 2006. Mine clearers have managed to open up large tracts for farming.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nansen Award: Mine clearers in Lebanon win Nansen Refugee Award]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A group of mine clearers win the Nansen Award for enabling hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced people to return home.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR welcomes Lebanon's recognition of Iraqi refugees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR praises Lebanon for its decision to recognize thousands of Iraqi refugees who had been considered as illegal immigrants liable to detention.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Assistant High Commissioner for Protection in Lebanon]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ After wrapping up a visit to Syria, UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Erika Feller, is in Lebanon to look closely at the conditions of refugees in the country and to discuss, in particular,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR opens community centre for Iraqi refugees in Beirut suburb]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Amid all the bad news, Iraqi refugees living in Lebanon finally have something to cheer about - UNHCR has opened a new community centre to help it reach out to the community of some 40,000 exiles.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Celebrate the Team]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR recognises the achievements and dedication of national and emergency teams who showed the right stuff during last summer's Lebanon crisis]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Landmine danger to displaced highlighted at new programme launch]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Assistant High Commissioner Erika Feller highlighted the danger that mines and other munitions pose to refugees and the displaced during the launch here this week of a major new programme.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lebanon's ancient city of Baalbek rises from the rubble]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Under the Romans, Baalbek was known as Heliopolis, or the City of the Sun. In more recent times, the ancient settlement in northern Lebanon's fertile Bekaa Valley has been associated more with storm clouds. But the city and its resilient people are recovering from the latest setback.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hardy souls return to clean up the mess in southern Lebanon]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The southern Lebanese village of Haddatha is a mess. Its buildings and the surrounding agricultural land were badly damaged during this summer's conflict. With winter approaching and no means of income, many of the inhabitants are staying in Beirut. But some hardy souls are back and rebuilding.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR reaches out to worried families in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[People who lost their homes in north-east Lebanon's Bekaa Valley fear that they will be forgotten as reconstruction efforts focus on southern Lebanon and the damaged suburbs of the capital, Beirut. But UNHCR is distributing relief items to the needy with the help of a local partner NGO.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 4 Oct 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR links with social development centres to help Lebanese IDPs]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[World attention may have shifted away from Lebanon, but many people continue to suffer from the recent conflict - including hundreds of displaced people in Beirut's crowded Hai Al Sullam area. UNHCR is reaching out to these folk - and other IDPs around Lebanon - with the help of social development centres.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The impact of the Lebanon war lives on in poverty, traumatised children]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The bombs have stopped falling, but for tens of thousands of Lebanese the suffering from this summer's war continues in the form of disrupted lives, economic hardship and traumatised children. UNHCR is trying to help some children overcome the damage from the war.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lebanon: UNHCR warehouse fire]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ A fire yesterday (Thursday) in our warehouse in Beirut has caused serious losses in our emergency supplies. The initial estimate is that about $700,000 in material was lost. While large amounts of UNHCR...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 8 Sep 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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