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Refugees Magazine Issue 110 (Crisis in the Great Lakes) - Cover Story: Heart of Darkness
1 Dec 1997 The Great Lakes was one of the largest and most complex humanitarian crises in modern times. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 110 (Crisis in the Great Lakes) - Rwanda: Going home ... to an uncertain future
1 Dec 1997 Going home - but to a very uncertain future. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 109 (1997 In Review) - Afghanistan
1 Sep 1997 It was a year of turmoil in Afghanistan. The mostly Pashtun Taliban forces battled the opposition Northern Alliance, which includes the country's next three largest ethnic groups, on various fronts and as the year progressed the ethnic divide became increasingly bitter... -
Refugees Magazine Issue 109 (1997 In Review) - The World
1 Sep 1997 International attention inevitably focused on mega crises such as the Great Lakes region in Africa and Bosnia, but there were dozens of other flashpoints and UNHCR helped more than 22 million people in every corner of the globe last year . . . -
Refugees Magazine Issue 109 (1997 In Review) - CIS
1 Sep 1997 It is one of the largest mass migrations in modern history. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, as many as nine million people have been on the move at any one time within the successor nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States [CIS], trekking in as many directions as there are points on the compass; civilians fleeing conflict, economic and ecological migrants and people returning to their homes of ethnic origin, some after 50 years in exile . . -
Refugees Magazine Issue 109 (1997 In Review) - The Balkans
1 Sep 1997 Bosnia's first post-war movie is titled 'The Perfect Circle' and is playing to packed audiences. Civilians and soldiers alike have been mesmerised by reliving their war experiences on screen . . . -
Refugees Magazine Issue 109 (1997 In Review) - Great Lakes
1 Sep 1997 Africa's Great Lakes was a cauldron of conflicts and coups for much of 1997. Laurent Kabila swept across the former Zaire and overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko after 32 years in power. Refugees were killed in the equatorial rainforests and their plight put an intolerable strain on the very institution of asylum in Africa . . . -
Refugees Magazine Issue 109 (1997 In Review) - Forward
1 Sep 1997 Humanitarian action at the crossroads, by Sadako Ogata, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees -
Refugees Magazine Issue 109 (1997 In Review) - Protection
1 Sep 1997 "Refugee protection, at its heart, is a shared undertaking. Countries of origin, asylum and donor states must play their full role if it is to work." . . .