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Iraq situation deteriorates further; US gives $30 million to aid education
28 Aug 2007 The UN refugee agency warned on Tuesday that the humanitarian situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate with the number of displaced Iraqis, both inside and outside the country, rising. The US, meanwhile, announced a grant of US$30 million towards educating refugee children in host countries. -
Vietnamese refugees well settled in China, await citizenship
10 May 2007 One of the most successful local integration programmes in the world has seen some 300,000 former Vietnamese nationals build new lives in China. Ethnically Chinese, these refugees now want formal citizenship in their adopted homeland. -
Q&A: Jordanian brings resettled refugee children together on the soccer pitch
4 May 2007 Luma Mufleh grew up in Jordan and emigrated to the United States. In 2004, she started the Fugees, a soccer team for refugee youth in Clarkston, a small town in the southern US state of Georgia. Coaching for six seasons, she has brought together players from diverse backgrounds and worked to find support for her team. -
Divorce leaves some Vietnamese women broken-hearted and stateless
14 Feb 2007 After marrying foreign men in a bid to escape poverty, thousands of Vietnamese women have found they lost not only their dreams, but their citizenship, when the marriages broke up. UNHCR is working with the government of Viet Nam to try to restore their rights. -
On American plains, refugees receive a warm welcome in a cold climate
5 Dec 2006 More than 200 refugees have come to Sioux Falls in the US state of South Dakota this year. Most are reunited with family. Others arrive knowing no one. For all of them, the towering figure of David Jal, his forehead etched with the tribal scars of his native Sudan, is a reassuring presence. -
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. -
United States to open doors to thousands of Burundian refugees
18 Oct 2006 The United States has agreed to resettle thousands of Burundian refugees who fled their homeland in 1972. The offer applies to some 13,000 Burundians presently in Tanzania and it will be one of the largest group resettlements proposed by UNHCR in recent years. -
In search of freedom, Burmese refugees head for new life in America
13 Oct 2006 Nearly 7,000 Karen refugees from Myanmar have been resettled in the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries as UNHCR's resettlement programme from camps in Thailand moves into high gear.