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UN agencies team up on family planning for refugees in Thailand
15 Jan 2009 UNHCR and the UN Population Fund are collaborating so refugees along Thailand's border with Myanmar can continue to plan their families -
Innovative measures slash sexually-transmitted infections in Bangladeshi camps
14 Jan 2009 Having refugees distribute condoms to their fellow refugees is one innovative plank in a three-year programme paying dividends in two camps in Bangladesh. -
Protracted Refugee Situations: Bangladesh camp life improves, but home is best
10 Dec 2008 Uddin fled his native Myanmar in 1991 and sought refuge in Bangladesh. With training and education from UNHCR, he prospered in a refugee camp. But he still misses his village after years of exile. -
Overshadowed by displacement in Sri Lanka's north, people return home in the east
6 Nov 2008 While global attention has been focused on the hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by fighting in northern Sri Lanka in recent weeks, UNHCR is helping other displaced people in the east to go back and rebuild their homes. -
Widows and orphans in Myanmar face dangers six months after Nargis
31 Oct 2008 UNHCR has helped some 200,000 people with plastic sheets and mosquito nets in the six months since Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, but remains concerned about the welfare of many widows and orphans. -
Welcome to Prague: first Myanmar refugees resettle in Czech Republic
31 Oct 2008 The Czech Republic has joined the ranks of eight EU resettlement countries with the arrival this week of 23 Myanmar refugees, some of whom had been in exile in Malaysia for nearly 10 years. -
Iraqi refugee's Australian dream finally comes true
25 Sep 2008 Seven years after he escaped persecution at home and set out for Australia illegally, an Iraqi refugee gets the chance to resettle there legally. -
More than 5,000 refugees resettled from Nepal
23 Sep 2008 More than 5,000 refugees from Bhutan have left camps in Nepal for resettlement countries so far this year. The United States has accepted the largest numbers. -
UNHCR deeply concerned about newly displaced in Sri Lanka's north
8 Aug 2008 As the conflict intensifies in northern Sri Lanka, the UN refugee agency has called for urgent steps to ensure the protection of thousands of displaced families and unhindered passage for humanitarian aid.