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Over 350,000 Afghans repatriate from Pakistan before winter
2 Nov 2007 More than 356,000 Afghans have returned home from Pakistan this year as voluntary repatriation was suspended this week for the annual winter break. -
School and shelter for Pakistan's flood victims
22 Oct 2007 Four months after Cyclone Yemyin hit Pakistan, relief efforts have entered the early recovery phase. In addition to relief supplies, UNHCR has distributed tents for a temporary school and is using funds for shelter materials in flood-hit areas. -
Families settle in Afghan's Baghlan province after years on the road
9 Oct 2007 A homeless and landless community of returnees in north-eastern Afghanistan has bought land privately to rebuild their community. The 24 families still have no drinking water or school. But they believe that, with time, they'll be able make this place their home, after decades of displacement. -
Q&A: Peering beyond the burqa to support Afghan women
5 Oct 2007 Lynda Lim has worked with refugees in her native Malaysia. Currently a community services officer with UNHCR in Quetta, south-western Pakistan, the UN Volunteer braves late-night blasts and bumpy rides to address women's issues in conservative Afghan communities. She discusses her work. -
Keeping Pakistan's cultural capital clean
4 Oct 2007 An Afghan community helps to collect and recycle garbage in Lahore - work that few Pakistanis want to do. They make minimum wages and live in miserable slum conditions, but would rather stay in Pakistan than face poverty and insecurity back home. -
Afghan returnees rebuild lives with bricks and pride
24 Sep 2007 In northern Afghanistan's Kunduz province, a group of returnees from camps in Pakistan found their village in ruins. The long road in exile has come to an end, but a new journey is beginning; that of rebuilding their homes and their lives with the support of UNHCR. -
Author Khaled Hosseini calls for long-term commitment for Afghanistan
13 Sep 2007 Best-selling author Khaled Hosseini has warned that the international community needs to remain committed to Afghanistan and give the country time. Failure to do so would see his native land sliding backwards with disastrous consequences. -
Study highlights socio-economic challenges faced by Afghan returnees
3 Sep 2007 A lack of jobs, safe drinking water, accessible health care, education and housing are the main obstacles to the return and reintegration of Afghan refugees, says a recent report by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. -
UNHCR seeks $10 million to continue Afghan repatriation
10 Aug 2007 The UN refugee agency has requested an additional $10 million to cover the cost of repatriating Afghans, who are returning from Pakistan to their homeland in greater numbers this year than originally forecast.