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Facilitating the Transition from Asylum to Return and Reintegration in Iraq 2009-1010

Repatriation

UNHCR works with the country of origin and host countries to help refugees return home.

DAFI Scholarship Programme: 2008 Annual Report

UNHCR, with earmarked funding from the German Government, provides annually over 1,000 university scholarships to refugees in developing countries. This not only enables refugees to become self-reliant and a role model within the refugee community, but also contributes to the development of their home country upon return or facilitates integration into the host country. Many of them also work in refugee camps.

Rwanda, Revisiting the Camps

It was the fastest genocide in modern history and ten years on, Rwanda is still trying to pick up the pieces. Seeing today's empty fields, it is difficult to recall the horror of the refugee camps a decade ago. Unfinished business as thousands of Rwandans continue to return home years after the conflict ended.

Stories from Refugees Magazine Issue N° 135: 'New Europe and Asylum. What Next?' related to Unit plan for ages 12-14 in History

Ingushetia: Internally Displaced Chechens

Author Hosseini in Afghanistan

Emergency in Timor-Leste pt.1: Recent Violence

Pakistan: Reluctant to return

Pakistan has announced that the more than 2 million people who had fled recent fighting between government and militants could now return home. Even though most say they want to go back- many still fear a relapse of the violence. UNHCR wants to make sure any return is voluntary.

Pakistan: First Returns

An operation to help some of the more than 2 million conflict-displaced Pakistani civilians return home is under way, with hundreds of residents of Jalozai camp in North West Frontier Province the first to go back. UNHCR is monitoring the government operation to make sure the returns are voluntary.

Serbia: Far From Hope

Thousands of refugee families uprooted by war are living a day-to-day existence in Serbia. They cannot return home, and they have few means of support in Serbia.