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Q&A: A school in the US town of Decatur offers refugees a top education
28 Jul 2009 The International Community School in the US city of Decatur was set up in 2002 to provide a top primary education to a mix of US-born local children and young refugees and immigrants. -
Viet Nam sets the pace for Asia with new law to prevent statelessness
1 Jul 2009 Under new legislation, Viet Nam will keep its tens of thousands of "economic brides" from risking the loss of citizenship when they marry foreign men. -
Resettlement of Myanmar refugees from Thailand camps hits 50,000 mark
30 Jun 2009 A 23-year-old ethnic Karenni school teacher becomes the 50,000th Myanmar refugee to leave Thailand under the world's largest resettlement programme. -
UNHCR launches resettlement of refugees in Chad to the United States
23 Jun 2009 UNHCR begins a programme to resettle 1,800 refugees in Chad to the United States, with a first group of 11 flying out of N'Djamena at the weekend. -
Refugee women crochet up sweaters, self-esteem and camaraderie
2 Jun 2009 A low-cost UNHCR project in Phnom Penh encourages women refugees and asylum seekers to pass on skills to each other that can help improve their lives back home. -
Number of internally displaced people remains stable at 26 million
4 May 2009 An annual report released by the Norwegian Refugee Council puts the number of internally displaced people in 2008 at 26 million last year, the same as 2007. -
Former Liberian refugee seeks to help others adjust to life in US
11 Mar 2009 Jacob Massaquoi, a former refugee from Liberia, heads African Refuge, which seeks to ease the transition for those adjusting to new lives in the United States. -
Q&A: Rose Mapendo draws on her traumatic life to help others
23 Jan 2009 Rose Mapendo, an ethnic Tutsi from eastern Congo, suffered greatly before reaching the United States and devoting her life to helping others. -
More than 5,000 refugees resettled from Nepal
23 Sep 2008 More than 5,000 refugees from Bhutan have left camps in Nepal for resettlement countries so far this year. The United States has accepted the largest numbers.