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UNHCR launches airlift to help Lebanese, shipments also under way
10 Aug 2006 A UNHCR airlift to deliver tonnes of urgently needed relief supplies to Lebanon got under way Thursday with one flight arriving in Beirut from Jordan and a DC-8 scheduled to depart Copenhagen for Larnaca, Cyprus later in the day. Two UNHCR-chartered Airbus 310 flights from Jordan are also expected in Larnaca over the next four days. -
UNHCR worried about welfare of Iranian-Kurds on Iraq-Jordan border
11 Jul 2006 After spending more than a year in no man's land between Iraq and Jordan, 200 Iranian Kurds have recently been holding demonstrations to press their demand for resettlement in a third country. Three of them have started a hunger strike and their health has seriously deteriorated. UNHCR offers of assistance and alternative solutions have been spurned. -
Tying up legal loose ends helps Afghans return from Iran
24 Nov 2005 Four years after the fall of the Taliban regime, Afghan refugees continue to go home in large numbers from neighbouring Iran and Pakistan. But the desire to return is often complicated by outstanding legal and financial issues - a situation that, in Iran, has been eased by an effective dispute-solving process. -
Last group of Iranian Kurd refugees starts relocation from endangered Iraq camp
10 Nov 2005 On Wednesday, registration of a group of 439 Iranian Kurd refugees began in Kawa, northern Iraq. The new site will accommodate the last 2,000 refugees left in the decades-old Al Tash camp, which has been beset by violence and insecurity since the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003. -
From Jordan's desert to Sweden's winter - a refugee family's story
7 Jun 2005 After spending most of their lives in refugee camps, Yaseen and his family were resettled to Sweden late last year. UNHCR checks back with them six months later, and finds them starting a hopeful life in their new home. -
Reuniting refugee families at Ruweished camp
1 Jun 2005 The desert camp in eastern Jordan was the scene of emotional reunions when 743 people arrived from the no man's land between Jordan and Iraq. Several Palestinian families were deep in embrace after spending two years apart. -
UNHCR welcomes breakthrough for Iraq's refugees
31 May 2005 The UN refugee agency has welcomed a series of recent breakthroughs in Iraq and Jordan which will improve the safety and living conditions of thousands of refugees who were living in Iraq at the time of the 2003 war. -
Child's death highlights refugees' plight on Iraq-Jordan border
15 Apr 2005 A recent fire that killed a three-year-old girl and left severe burns on two other Palestinian refugees has shed the spotlight once again on the hundreds of refugees who have been stranded around the Jordan-Iraq border for almost two years. -
Afghan New Year signals new returns, new challenges
21 Mar 2005 Afghanistan and Iran are celebrating naw roz today, marking the end of a harsh winter and a new season of activity. This year, many Afghans are expected to follow in the footsteps of the over 1 million who have returned home from Iran, seeking a better life in their homeland.