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Check-ups and rights awareness for women at Venezuelan border
31 Mar 2004 A recent Women's Health Day held in the refugee-hosting community of Santa Barbara enabled women, many of them victims of the Colombian conflict, to receive medical care and information on their rights and the asylum process. -
More than 1,500 flee clashes in western Colombia
30 Mar 2004 In the last two weeks, more than 1,200 indigenous people have been displaced by fighting between guerrillas and paramilitaries in the north-west, while hundreds of Colombians fearing clashes between the army and guerrillas in the south-west have crossed temporarily into Ecuador. -
UNHCR staff receives award for helping Colombia's forgotten people
17 Mar 2004 The bonds between UNHCR staff and those they help. -
UNHCR condemns murders of two leaders of displaced Colombians
10 Feb 2004 The UN refugee agency has strongly condemned the murders of two members of an association of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Colombia and urged authorities to investigate the crimes and prosecute those responsible. -
Feature: A school boat in a Venezuelan jungle
10 Feb 2004 The UN refugee agency is helping build a boat that will bring children of Colombian refugees and local residents to a school in a remote Venezuelan jungle that gets flooded during the six-month rainy season. It is one of the agency's 55 projects to help refugees and local communities hosting them in Venezuela. -
Venezuela border projects bring fresh water, help children go to school
28 Jan 2004 Children in one community in Venezuela can go to school more easily, and people in two other areas now have drinking water - thanks to projects the UN refugee agency has inaugurated. The projects in border regions of Venezuela are part of UNHCR's efforts to help Venezuelans and Colombians who have fled violence in their homeland. -
Assistant High Commissioner expresses solidarity with Colombia's internally displaced
27 Jan 2004 UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner Kamel Morjane pledges the agency's continuing support for hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people in Colombia and urges the country's leadership to do all it can to restore their basic rights. -
Feature: Homecoming marks end of odyssey for Colombian refugees
21 Jan 2004 After years in exile, 84 Colombian refugees recently sailed home from Jaqué, Panama, to Juradó, Colombia, in a return operation monitored by the UN refugee agency. In addition to repatriation and rehabilitation assistance, the returnees will also need help reintegrating into their communities, said UNHCR. -
Venezuelan border town kicks off refugee awareness campaign
7 Jan 2004 Displaced Colombians in Ureña recently joined their Venezuelan hosts in a football tournament to kick off a campaign to inform potential asylum seekers of their rights and obligations.
