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My door is always open, says refugee in Armenia
1 Sep 2005 Sergey Danielyan is an ethnic Armenian who fled Azerbaijan for Armenia as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. UNHCR catches up with the 69-year-old to see how he is coping with life as a refugee in his motherland. -
Fuji Optical puts focus on needy people in Azerbaijan
30 Jun 2005 Some 1,500 people in Azerbaijan - refugees, displaced people, orphans, the elderly and other vulnerable populations - have had their eyes examined and received free eye glasses from a visiting team from Fuji Optical. -
Helping Crimean Tatars feel at home again
8 Jun 2005 Decades after they were deported from the Crimean peninsula under the Stalin regime, thousands of Tatars have returned to their ancestral homeland, now part of Ukraine. Simplified procedures have allowed most of them to become Ukrainian citizens, but the challenges of reintegration remain. -
Integration projects open doors for refugees in North Ossetia
8 Feb 2005 A slow but steady solution is in sight for tens of thousands of people who fled their homes in Georgia more than 10 years ago, through legal counselling, housing and integration projects by the UN refugee agency and its partners in the Russian republic of North Ossetia-Alania. -
Ukraine offers new home for asylum seekers
2 Dec 2004 An accommodation centre recently opened in Odessa to meet the housing needs of asylum seekers. Funded by the Ukrainian government and the European Union, it is part of efforts to strengthen the asylum system in EU bordering states in eastern Europe. -
Chechen and Belgian refugees: Lots in common, if 90 years apart
3 Nov 2004 A photo exhibition in the North Belgian town of Zemst lets visitors share refugee experiences - past and present, local and global - by juxtaposing images of people who fled the town during World War I, and today's refugee crises in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Darfur and Western Sahara. -
Ukraine, Sri Lanka provide models for solving statelessness
6 Oct 2004 UN refugee agency chief Ruud Lubbers has reminded states that there are several million stateless people in the world today and introduced Ukraine and Sri Lanka as positive examples of countries that had found resolutions for the huge and hidden problem. -
New school year, new clothes for refugee children in Ukraine
22 Sep 2004 Hennes and Mauritz (H&M) Europe has donated more than 30,000 pieces of new clothing worth some 95,000 euros to refugees, asylum seekers and other vulnerable people in Ukraine's Kyiv, Odesa and Zakarpattia regions. -
UNHCR training helps sensitise Kyiv's police to asylum issues
29 Jul 2004 The UN refugee agency and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society recently held a training session in Kyiv, Ukraine, to train police officers on ways to improve the implementation of refugee legislation and to prevent undue detention and deportation of asylum seekers.