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UNHCR winds up cash-starved Timor-Leste operation
3 Jul 2007 The UN refugee agency has ended nearly 14 months of emergency action in Timor-Leste because of a lack of money. The last international staff have left the young nation, leaving behind a small core of national staff to help rebuild the skills of civil servants and look after a few refugees from Asia and West Africa. -
Japanese volleyball Olympians share their skills with refugees in Nepal
11 Apr 2007 Three members of Japan's gold-winning women's volleyball team in the 1976 Montreal Olympics recently visited eastern Nepal to share their knowledge and skills with young refugees. -
Japan gives UNHCR US$2.5 million for repatriation and reintegration of Liberian refugees
20 Mar 2007 The government of Japan has donated US$2.5 million dollars to UNHCR for the agency's programmes aimed at the sustainable return of Liberian refugees from neighbouring Guinea. -
Japan's Uniqlo clothing chain puts smiles on faces of refugees in Nepal
1 Mar 2007 Japan's popular Uniqlo casual clothing chain has handed out 50,000 pieces of second-hand clothing to refugees at this camp in eastern Nepal. The recycled clothes have been deposited by customers at more than 700 Uniqlo outlets around Japan -
Annual Nansen Refugee Award presented to Japanese optometrist
3 Oct 2006 The Nansen Refugee Award 2006 was formally presented to Japanese optometrist Dr. Akio Kanai in Geneva on Monday for his work in improving the sight of tens of thousands of uprooted people around the world over the past two decades. -
Timor-Leste: When this nun speaks, even rival gangs listen
3 Oct 2006 Thousands of Timor-Leste's displaced people are heading into a rainy season, still living in tents. UNHCR is distributing items to make their life a little more bearable, and a feisty nun is standing up to rival gangs who have been terrorising the 2,000 displaced people under the protection of her Roman Catholic order. -
UNHCR hands relief items to Timor-Leste, expresses concern about security situation
1 Sep 2006 UNHCR on Friday handed relief items to the government of Timor-Leste to help families whose houses were destroyed during violence earlier this year. The refugee agency also expressed concern about fresh violence in the country. -
Japanese ambassador visits resilient IDPs in foothills near Dili
14 Jul 2006 Japanese Ambassador Kenji Shimizu received a warm welcome from villagers when he helped a UNHCR mission distribute aid to displaced people outside the Timor-Leste capital Dili. Japan has donated US$2 million towards the refugee agency's emergency relief operations in Timor-Leste. -
Troubleshooting UNHCR technicians get to work on Dili's crowded camps
11 Jul 2006 UNHCR has formed a mobile technical team to deal with drainage problems and other repair work at crowded camps in the Timor-Leste capital Dili. The teams have started working at several sites where displaced people have gathered.