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UNHCR, UNICEF and IOM urge European states to boost education for refugee and migrant children
11 Sep 2019 Key challenges include lack of school spaces, teachers not adequately trained, language barriers and limited access to psychosocial support -
A huge burden lifted as refugee restaurant owner gains Estonian citizenship
11 May 2015 Karwan has worked hard to fit in, learning the language, making friends, finding employment, starting a family. It all paid off earlier this year. -
50 years on in Germany, Eastern Europe's displaced still remember UNHCR
5 Jan 2006 After the end of World War II, millions of people found themselves living outside their own country, including many slave labourers from Eastern Europe taken to Germany by the Nazis. One of UNHCR's first programmes was to provide housing and education for the most vulnerable of these uprooted people. Some 50 years later, the benefits of that programme are still being felt. -
UNHCR welcomes two Baltic States acceding to the international refugee convention
21 Feb 1997