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Stateless former Cambodians caught in Kafkaesque web in Viet Nam
30 Oct 2006 The UN refugee agency is working with the Vietnamese government to try to get citizenship for some 9,500 former Cambodian refugees who were left stateless when their country refused to take them back. Now in Viet Nam with no legal rights for more than three decades, they only want to be what they already feel they are - Vietnamese citizens. -
US-bound teen dreams of helping his native Sudan despite identity crisis
5 Oct 2006 Deng Duot flew out of Ethiopia for a new life in the United States last month, but the 16-year-old Sudanese refugee felt like he was going into exile. His dilemma is one faced by many refugees born and raised in host countries and now facing repatriation or resettlement overseas. -
Refugees urge Argentine Congress to implement draft refugee law
22 Sep 2006 Refugees originating from Latin American, African and Asian countries have handed a petition to the Argentine Congress asking for a draft refugee law to be endorsed and implemented. -
Montagnards not punished for leaving Viet Nam, UNHCR mission finds
19 Sep 2006 A team of UNHCR officials monitoring the treatment of minority Montagnard hill tribe people in Viet Nam heard from the returnees that they have not suffered any repercussions after leaving the country illegally for what they hoped would be an easy life in the distant United States. -
Cambodia, Viet Nam and UNHCR agree on further Montagnard cooperation
22 Aug 2006 Cambodia, Viet Nam and UNHCR have agreed to further cooperate on finding solutions for Montagnards leaving Viet Nam's Central Highlands and crossing into Cambodia. Monitoring of returnees by the UN refugee agency will continue, while the voluntary repatriation process and joint missions by UNHCR and the Cambodian authorities to retrieve Montagnard asylum seekers will be sped up. -
Sudanese refugee uses scraps and camp waste to make life more comfortable
10 Aug 2006 Sudanese refugee Repan Sadik makes electronic equipment from scraps found around the Bonga refugee camp in western Ethiopia. UNHCR recognised his skills with an award and he hopes that his gift with gadgets will help win him a place in a college overseas to study electronics. -
Training Vietnamese provincial officials creates greater understanding of UNHCR's Montagnard monitoring
18 May 2006 Since Montagnards began returning to their homes in Viet Nam's Central Highlands from Cambodia, UNHCR has been involved in monitoring their situation under the terms of an agreement signed in Hanoi in January 2005. A recent training session of provincial authorities in the Vietnamese coastal city of Da Nang created a greater understanding of UNHCR's role and refugee law. -
Assistant High Commissioner cautiously optimistic over Montagnard returnee situation in Viet Nam's Central Highlands
27 Apr 2006 After a two-day official visit to Viet Nam's Central Highlands to see for herself Montagnard returnees from Cambodia, UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Erika Feller, said she was "cautiously optimistic about how their situation is evolving." -
Joyful cries greet first convoy home to South Sudan from Ethiopia
4 Apr 2006 The first convoys organised by UNHCR to bring South Sudanese refugees home from Ethiopia have crossed the border into Sudan with 500 refugees on board - two-thirds of them were children who were seeing their "homeland" for the first time.