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Tripartite meeting agrees to look at new ways to encourage returns from Iran
10 Oct 2006 Iran, Afghanistan and UNHCR on Tuesday wrapped up a two-day meeting on voluntary repatriation to Afghanistan with agreement to look at new ways to encourage refugees to return home amid falling numbers of returnees from Iran. -
Iranian businessman becomes first refugee to get Philippine citizenship
25 Sep 2006 An Iranian businessman has become the first refugee to be granted Philippine citizenship. Buick Bahador, who fled Iran in 1979 and is married to a Filipina, was sworn in during a court ceremony in Angeles City, Pampanga province. -
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. -
Football brings refugees and host societies closer
7 Jul 2006 Moves by Slovenia to deport four asylum-seeking Gambian football players have caused a public uproar. The case is one example of how football can help bridge the gap between refugees and asylum seekers and their host societies. -
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. -
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. -
Refugees at Iraq-Jordan border receive urgent aid
11 Feb 2005 A group of 102 Iranian Kurd refugees from Iraq's Al Tash camp who have been stranded at the Iraq-Jordan border for weeks today received food and relief supplies from the UN refugee agency through the Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organisation.
