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Virtual game offers insight into refugee experience
15 Jun 2005 The UN refugee agency has launched a web-based interactive game to promote integration and positive attitudes towards refugees by putting teenage players in their shoes. -
From Jordan's desert to Sweden's winter - a refugee family's story
7 Jun 2005 After spending most of their lives in refugee camps, Yaseen and his family were resettled to Sweden late last year. UNHCR checks back with them six months later, and finds them starting a hopeful life in their new home. -
Iranian Kurd refugees leave for Sweden; hundreds remain in no man's land
10 Dec 2004 A second and last group of 185 Iranian Kurds have left Jordan for resettlement in Sweden. While they can look forward to a new life, hundreds of their friends are still stuck in the harsh desert of the no man's land between Jordan and Iraq, waiting for a solution to their plight. -
Iranian Kurd refugees - different destinies and destinations
26 Nov 2004 The UN refugee agency has expressed great concern over the fate of nearly 4,200 Iranian Kurd refugees from Iraq's Al Tash camp after recent fighting sent some of them fleeing and cut off access to those who remain. Meanwhile, a separate group has been relocated from Jordan to Sweden. -
Feature: Hope and sorrow in Jordan's no man's land
25 Oct 2004 A group of 384 Iranian Kurds are preparing for a new life in Sweden after spending a year and a half in the no man's land between Iraq and Jordan. However, more than 600 others are still stuck in the desolate border region awaiting resettlement or other solutions to their plight. -
From detention to family reunion
3 Mar 2004 At an age when some children have not even taken the bus alone, two young Somalis have hopped on a boat - unaccompanied - in search of their mother half the world away.