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UNHCR and Sheraton Hotel in Tajikistan offer Afghan refugees chance to shine
25 Oct 2017 A pioneering partnership between UNHCR and the Sheraton Hotel is helping refugees to learn job skills. -
UNHCR water project aids road safety in Kyrgyzstan
24 Nov 2015 Peacebuilding programme brings standpipes to village where children risked their lives crossing a busy highway on a daily trek to fetch water -
Ancient principles inform current laws, UNHCR chief tells gathering on Muslim refugees
11 May 2012 UNHCR urges member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to take long-standing principles of providing asylum and enshrine them in legislation. -
Statelessness: More than 3,000 stateless people given Turkmen nationality
7 Dec 2011 Some 20,000 people have been registered as stateless in Turkmenistan since 2007. More than 3,000 of them were granted citizenship earlier this year. -
Statelessness: Breaking the cycle in Kyrgyzstan
26 Aug 2011 On paper, they do not exist. In reality, they struggle daily for their basic rights because they do not have a nationality, as generations of stateless people in Kyrgyzstan can attest. -
UNHCR sends 250 tents for quake-displaced in Kyrgyzstan
29 Jul 2011 UNHCR provides 250 family tents to house some 2,000 people left homeless in Kyrgyzstan by last week's earthquake on the border with Uzbekistan. -
UNHCR calls for confidence-building to sustain returns to south Kyrgyzstan
10 Jun 2011 A year after the deadly clashes of June 2010, tens of thousands of people from southern Kyrgyzstan are still displaced. -
Q&A: Contributing to peace-building in Kyrgyzstan
7 Mar 2011 Almost a year after the displacement crisis in Kyrgyzstan, UNHCR is busy assisting people and helping to rebuild bridges. Hans Schodder explains. -
UNHCR completes Kyrgyzstan shelter programme in time for winter
3 Dec 2010 UNHCR wraps up an emergency shelter programme in southern Kyrgyzstan after providing temporary homes for more than 13,400 displaced people.