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Sri Lanka government assures UNHCR of full engagement in future moves to return IDPs
16 Mar 2007 The UN refugee agency said it had received renewed assurances from the Sri Lankan government that UNHCR will now be fully engaged in any further moves to return internally displaced people. -
Hope becomes a reality for displaced Sri Lankans in resettlement programme
14 Mar 2007 A UNHCR resettlement programme has found new homes in north-east Sri Lanka for 178 families displaced in 1990 by the conflict between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. -
More than 40,000 civilians flee latest fighting in eastern Sri Lanka
13 Mar 2007 More than 40,000 civilians have fled fierce fighting in eastern Sri Lanka over the past week, pushing to an estimated 127,000 the number of displaced within the affected district of Batticaloa. -
Prominent Burmese journalist leaves Cambodia for the United States
12 Mar 2007 Burmese journalist Maung Maung Kyaw Win will soon be able to write freely after years of working under a pseudonym and facing persecution in his native Myanmar. He left Cambodia on Monday for a new life in the United States. -
Far from family, young female refugees from Myanmar find friendship
7 Mar 2007 Two teenagers sip iced tea at a roadside stall in Kuala Lumpur, their conversation peppered with laughter. But despite their happy demeanour, the two young women have suffered a lot and face an uncertain future far away from their families in Myanmar. Their story is not uncommon. -
UNHCR urges Bangladesh to find new homes for riverbank refugees
7 Mar 2007 A countrywide clean-up by the Bangladeshi government threatens the miserable, flimsy huts of some 6,000 refugees who live in an unofficial camp wedged between a river and a busy road. UNHCR has offered to work with the government and donor countries to find an alternative site. -
UNHCR distributes aid to more than 2,000 host families in Jaffna Peninsula
5 Feb 2007 The UN refugee agency has distributed packages of non-food items to more than 2,000 host families in northern Sri Lanka's Jaffna Peninsula despite interruptions to the relief programme launched last November. -
Australia grants visa to Iraqi man held on Pacific island for five years
1 Feb 2007 The ordeal of Iraqi refugee Mohammed Faisal is finally over after he was granted an Australian protection visa following five years stuck on a tiny Pacific island and five months in a psychiatric hospital in Brisbane. -
Sri Lanka: Some 5,000 civilians find refuge in Batticaloa after fleeing coastal strip
23 Jan 2007 An estimated 5,000 civilians have found refuge in eastern Sri Lanka's Batticaloa district after fleeing escalated fighting between government forces and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the Vaharai coastal strip.