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<title><![CDATA[Statelessness: Former refugees win citizenship, and now dream of home ownership]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[After 35 years of stateless limbo in Viet Nam, a Cambodian man is now a citizen with the prospect of a real home.  ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Statelessness: Giving up a beloved name and lifetime limbo for citizenship]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Viet Nam and UNHCR have worked together to end 35 years of suffering for some of Pol Pot's last victims – stateless former Cambodian refugees.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ground-breaking steps to end statelessness for former refugees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR applauds the efforts of Viet Nam to end statelessness for 2,357 former Cambodian refugees, a legacy of the Pol Pot regime. Many of them have lived in Viet Nam since 1975. All speak Vietnamese and...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Viet Nam ends stateless limbo for 2,300 former Cambodians]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Former refugees who have lived in Viet Nam for as long as 35 years get valuable documents – and the right to have rights.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR deplores deportation of asylum-seekers before claims heard]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Geneva, Saturday 19 December 2009
The UN refugee agency expressed deep concern today about the involuntary return of asylum seekers before their claims have been heard. A disturbing pattern of such cases...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Q&A: A humble rice farmer from Cambodia teaches reconciliation]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Film-maker Stanley Harper explains how a Cambodian matriarch and her divided family claimed 18 years of his life – and have something to tell the world.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugee women crochet up sweaters, self-esteem and camaraderie]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A low-cost UNHCR project in Phnom Penh encourages women refugees and asylum seekers to pass on skills to each other that can help improve their lives back home.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cambodia on track to become refugee model for Southeast Asia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The opening of a Cambodian Refugee Office is symbolic of the country's determination to take on new responsibilities in protecting refugees' rights.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Q&A: Former Cambodian refugee chronicles Iraqi displacement]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A former refugee from Cambodia, Kalyanee Mam tells how she raises awareness of refugee issues through her work as a lawyer, photographer and documentary maker.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vietnamese local governments smooth the way for stateless Cambodians]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The Vietnamese government has never granted citizenship to some 9,500 former Cambodian refugees living in the country since 1975, but at authorities at the local level do their best to extend equal rights to this forgotten group.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 8 Nov 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stateless former Cambodians caught in Kafkaesque web in Viet Nam]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The UN refugee agency is working with the Vietnamese government to try to get citizenship for some 9,500 former Cambodian refugees who were left stateless when their country refused to take them back. Now in Viet Nam with no legal rights for more than three decades, they only want to be what they already feel they are - Vietnamese citizens.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Montagnards not punished for leaving Viet Nam, UNHCR mission finds]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A team of UNHCR officials monitoring the treatment of minority Montagnard hill tribe people in Viet Nam heard from the returnees that they have not suffered any repercussions after leaving the country illegally for what they hoped would be an easy life in the distant United States.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cambodia, Viet Nam and UNHCR agree on further Montagnard cooperation]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Cambodia, Viet Nam and UNHCR have agreed to further cooperate on finding solutions for Montagnards leaving Viet Nam's Central Highlands and crossing into Cambodia. Monitoring of returnees by the UN refugee agency will continue, while the voluntary repatriation process and joint missions by UNHCR and the Cambodian authorities to retrieve Montagnard asylum seekers will be sped up.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Viet Nam Montagnards: UNHCR rejects HRW report allegations]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ On Wednesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report that was picked up by the wires and others on the situation of the Montagnards in Viet Nam. The report alleged that Vietnamese authorities have...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Training Vietnamese provincial officials creates greater understanding of UNHCR's Montagnard monitoring]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Since Montagnards began returning to their homes in Viet Nam's Central Highlands from Cambodia, UNHCR has been involved in monitoring their situation under the terms of an agreement signed in Hanoi in January 2005. A recent training session of provincial authorities in the Vietnamese coastal city of Da Nang created a greater understanding of UNHCR's role and refugee law.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Assistant High Commissioner winds up Asia mission with Viet Nam visit]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ The Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Erika Feller, today wound up a five-day mission to Asia in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, where she agreed with the government that UNHCR and Viet Nam would...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Assistant High Commissioner cautiously optimistic over Montagnard returnee situation in Viet Nam's Central Highlands]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[After a two-day official visit to Viet Nam's Central Highlands to see for herself Montagnard returnees from Cambodia, UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Erika Feller, said she was "cautiously optimistic about how their situation is evolving."]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Assistant High Commissioner's mission to Cambodia and Viet Nam]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ The Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Erika Feller, is on the first leg of a five-day mission to Cambodia and Viet Nam today, Tuesday. During her mission she is scheduled to meet senior government...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR accompanies Montagnard refugees home to Viet Nam]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[An unprecedented monitoring visit by the UN refugee agency to Viet Nam's Central Highlands in the company of a group of returning Montagnards found all the returnees apparently glad to be reunited with their families.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Monitoring visits to Montagnards show returnees benefit from assistance]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Increasingly regular visits by the UN refugee agency to Montagnards who have returned to Viet Nam's central highlands from Cambodia show returnees are receiving active assistance to reintegrate back home and are well treated.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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