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Cooperation between states in the Americas vital to protect refugees in migration flows
20 Nov 2009 A regional conference on refugee protection and mixed migration in the Americas gets under way with call on states to cooperate over the issue. -
UNHCR self-reliance programme helps empower Ivoirian refugee
30 Mar 2009 Ouattara Madoussou has been resettled in Canada. But she will stay in touch with Indonesian friends through an internet business set up with UNHCR help. -
UNHCR chief Guterres urges support for 2009 Humanitarian Appeal
24 Nov 2008 High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, representing the UN system, appeals to the international community to help meet the needs of tens of millions of the world's most vulnerable people. -
Urban refugees from Côte d'Ivoire move to camp
15 Jul 2008 A UNHCR convoy takes more than 150 urban refugees from Côte d'Ivoire to a rural camp after they asked to be moved from the Guinea capital, Conakry. -
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie and actor Brad Pitt make holiday visit to Colombian refugees in Costa Rica
26 Dec 2006 UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie and actor Brad Pitt spend Christmas Day with Colombian refugees in the Costa Rican capital of San José, assuring them and millions of other Colombians displaced by conflict that they have not been forgotten. -
First repatriation of Liberians from opposition-held northern Côte d'Ivoire
15 Sep 2006 The UNHCR this week began for the first time repatriating Liberian refugees from areas of Côte d'Ivoire under the control of opposition forces. The first group of 198 refugees left from the town of Danané in western Côte d'Ivoire and later crossed the Nihon River, which separates the two countries. -
Centres bring affordable day care for refugee mothers in Costa Rica
25 Aug 2006 Many refugee women need to work to support themselves and their families, but a shortage of day care facilities restricts their chances of finding employment. In the Costa Rican capital of San José, UNHCR is addressing the problem by helping open day care centres run by refugee women and local mothers. -
UNHCR closes a transit centre for Liberian refugees in Côte d'Ivoire
7 Jul 2006 The closure of the UNHCR transit centre at Tabou in south-west Côte d'Ivoire ends another chapter in the challenging search for solutions for tens of thousands of Liberian refugees. -
Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias calls on High Commissioner Guterres
7 Jun 2006 President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica and UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres discussed refugee issues and regional developments in Latin America during a meeting in Geneva on Tuesday.