Designing appropriate interventions in urban settings: Health, education, livelihoods and registration for urban refugees and returnees
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Childhood stolen by street gangs
8 Dec 2016 ... Running rackets from extortion, to robbery and kidnapping, the gangs’ reach extends throughout the region and beyond, turning urban slums and ramshackle villages alike into a patchwork of rival ...... -
UNHCR shelter kits reach more than a million Afghan returnees
16 Jan 2007 ... Their home village of Churchurak, a slum area outside the Parwan provincial capital of Charikar, was a battleground between the Taliban and the former Northern Alliance in the late 1990s. Depopulated ...... -
High Commissioner Guterres warns of huge risk for conflict again in DRC
27 Feb 2006 ... On Sunday morning, the three visited a feeding centre in a Kinshasa slum where malnutrition is a permanent problem, and then chatted with children in a programme for street children, many of whom have ...... -
UNHCR, Pakistan address complaints from harassed Afghan refugees
24 May 2002 ... The latter were threatened with jail if they were seen on the streets. UNHCR has also received a number of reports about random police raids in slum areas inhabited by Afghans, during which police ...... -
Draft Agenda: High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges, Third Meeting: "Challenges for Persons of Concern to UNHCR in Urban Settings" (9-10 December 2009, Palais des Nations, Room XIX)
26 Nov 2009 ... ground for durable solutions • Challenges for municipalities and authorities: urban planning, slum clearance, cities as theatres for emergencies, law and order Cross-cutting themes also to be ...... -
Keeping Pakistan's cultural capital clean
4 Oct 2007 ... Pakistanis are paid much more for the same work," Khan complained. Few children here can afford to go to school, so they run around the muddy slum with dirty faces and no shoes. "These children are so ...... -
Bracing for the Flood
11 Dec 2009 ... Within the developing world, moreover, disadvantaged women and men - subsistence farmers and fishermen, slum and shantytown dwellers, members of ethnic and religious minorities - will bear the brunt ...... -
Sudan government vows to boost security in Darfur village after UNHCR reports
23 Aug 2004 ... and confining the indigenous black Africans to a few centres where they have created squalid slums. (The so-called camps for displaced people are not run by UNHCR.) More than a million people are ...... -
Afghan delegation tours Pakistan to promote repatriation
15 Apr 2005 ... Others, such as the thousands of residents of the slum area on the edge of Islamabad where the ... about two decades in the Katcha Abadi slum area of Islamabad, where the delegation started its work. ......