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From Jordan's harsh Ruweished desert camp to a new life in Ottawa
11 Jan 2007 Labiba Eisa and her family have moved from one extreme to another. After more than three years of uncertainty and suffering in a harsh desert camp in Jordan, they were resettled early last month in the wintry climes of Canada -
Vietnamese local governments smooth the way for stateless Cambodians
8 Nov 2006 The Vietnamese government has never granted citizenship to some 9,500 former Cambodian refugees living in the country since 1975, but at authorities at the local level do their best to extend equal rights to this forgotten group. -
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. -
Small sums go a long way to improve lives in Viet Nam's Central Highlands
21 Sep 2006 In the remote villages of Viet Nam's Central Highlands, small-scale projects developed by the UN refugee agency are offering medical care and better education to minority Montagnard hill tribe people as well as majority Vietnamese. -
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. -
Star-crossed Angolan refugee begins a new life in Canada
4 Sep 2006 Angolan refugee Christine Dimfueni has had a hard life, losing both parents when she was young, suffering the death of a child and seeing her husband murdered. Today, she is looking forward to a better life in Canada, where she was resettled earlier this year under a UNHCR programme. -
Montagnards find peace and new homeland in Finland
31 Aug 2006 The Chung family were among 71 Montagnards from Viet Nam offered new homes in Finland last year under a UNHCR resettlement programme. It is a far cry from their former highland homes, but the group are settling in well, especially the younger generation. -
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. -
Canadian programme gives hope to Afghan refugees in Central Asia
14 Jun 2006 More than 2,700 Afghan refugees in Central Asia have been given a new lease on life in the last two years through the Canadian accelerated resettlement programme in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.