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Czech volunteer family's offer of help leads to firm friendship
23 Jan 2018 Sarka and Angus Grundy agreed to help a refugee family for six months and became close friends with a Syrian couple and their daughter. -
Welcome to Prague: first Myanmar refugees resettle in Czech Republic
31 Oct 2008 The Czech Republic has joined the ranks of eight EU resettlement countries with the arrival this week of 23 Myanmar refugees, some of whom had been in exile in Malaysia for nearly 10 years. -
Czech mission to Malaysia paving way for landmark resettlement programme
24 Jul 2008 A pilot programme to take Myanmar refugees to Central Europe will make the Czech Republic the first ex-Eastern Bloc nation to become a resettlement country. -
Czech mission funds mobile health care project for refugees in Malaysia
25 Jun 2007 The Czech Embassy in Kuala Lumpur has agreed to fund a nine-month UNHCR project aimed at providing mobile health care for refugees in Malaysia. -
UNHCR presents first award at Czech Press Photo contest
17 Nov 2004 Photographer Jiri Benak has won the first UNHCR Award at the annual Czech event with his entry, "Woman Seeking her Husband", which shows an internally displaced Sudanese woman's search for the husband she lost during Sudan's 21-year civil war. -
Portrait of a refugee unveiled in Prague
19 Jul 2002 The "Flight and Exile in Art" exhibition pairs paintings by artists like Picasso with UNHCR photographs to show the universality of exile through space, time and media.