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<title><![CDATA[The State of the World's Refugees 2006 - Chapter 6 Rethinking durable solutions: Box 6.2 Afghanistan - a complex transition]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[  In mid-2001, the prospects for progress in one of the world's largest and most complex refugee problems were remote. The extremist policies of the Taliban regime, deepening poverty and a crippling three-year...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 133: Afghanistan: The Most Important Operation (complete magazine, lo-res, 520 Kb, pdf)]]></title> 
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 132: (Protection) - Protection Officers: Kerosene shortages, property disputes, rape, lost children]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[  <em>It's all in a day's work for a UNHCR protection officer in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province</em>  <strong>By Jack Redden</strong>  For three relentless hours, refugees from Afghanistan's minority...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Collateral coverage: media images of Afghan refugees during the 2001 emergency, Terence Wright]]></title> 
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 127 (Environment) - Afghanistan: Rush Hour]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[  <strong>By Fernando del Mundo</strong>  <em>Afghanistan has seen it all before, but hundreds of thousands of people are again heading home</em>  Abdul Khaliq has never known anything but war, pain and...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 126 (Women) - Educating Fahria]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[  <em>Refugee schooling has been an unexpected bonus for many Afghan girls</em>  <strong>By Michelle Brown and Veronika Martin</strong>  With her frosty blue nail polish, confident smile, and almost flawless...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 1 Apr 2002 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 125: The September Terror - A Global Impact (complete magazine, 1.2Mb pdf)]]></title> 
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 125 (September Terror) - Helping Afghanistan]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[  <em>A complex humanitarian operation is pieced together</em>  On the seven floors of UNHCR's blue and yellow headquarters building in Geneva, staff stood mesmerized. The video of planes slamming into...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 109 (1997 In Review) - Afghanistan]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[It was a year of turmoil in Afghanistan. The mostly Pashtun Taliban forces battled the opposition Northern Alliance, which includes the country's next three largest ethnic groups, on various fronts and as the year progressed the ethnic divide became increasingly bitter...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 1 Sep 1997 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 108 (Afghanistan : the unending crisis) - An Iranian Surprise]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Iran has an international reputation of being among the most secretive and difficult of countries. It may therefore come as a surprise that Teheran is also the most generous host in the world to millions of refugees]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 1 Jun 1997 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 108 (Afghanistan : the unending crisis) - The dilemma of the internally displaced]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[As many as one million people have been internally displaced in Afghanistan in the last five years. This IDP population poses a tricky dilemma for UNHCR]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 1 Jun 1997 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 108 (Afghanistan : the unending crisis) - Dark side of the moon]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The civil war has reached even the most remote parts of Afghanistan. When fighting spread to Badghis province last year, efforts to help the displaced proved particularly difficult]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 1 Jun 1997 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 108 (Afghanistan : the unending crisis) - Afghan Soap]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The resurgence of economic activity will be a key to the future stability of Afghanistan. In one village, women have been trained in an unlikely skill]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 1 Jun 1997 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 108 (Afghanistan : the unending crisis) - The man who has seen it all]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Central Asia has been in turmoil for decades, and one old man who has been both a resistance fighter and refugee several times over, has seen it all]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 1 Jun 1997 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 108 (Afghanistan : the unending crisis) - The most difficult choice]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Most refugees will ultimately face the most difficult choice: whether to return home, continue life as a refugee or start a new life in a new country. Afghan refugees face a particularly complex decision]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 1 Jun 1997 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 108 (Afghanistan : the unending crisis) - The long way home]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Despite the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan, many people have already returned home. Soon, perhaps, that figure may exceed four million in what has become the largest assisted repatriation programme in UNHCR's history]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 1 Jun 1997 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 108 (Afghanistan : the unending crisis) - Helping Refugees to help themselves]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[It was a gamble ... but it paid off handsomely. Save the Children US began a UNHCR-funded programme to loan money with virtually no collateral to rural women, and thus far there has not been a single default]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 1 Jun 1997 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 108 (Afghanistan : the unending crisis) - The biggest caseload in the world]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[It remains the single largest refugee crisis in the world, though the international community at large often ignores or forgets about the problem. At its height, there were more than six million exiles from Afghanistan in surrounding countries. Today, UNHCR, other international agencies and governments are still caring for 2.7 million refugees, as well as countless other internally displaced persons]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 1 Jun 1997 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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