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Canadian-made refugee awareness campaign aims to shock
14 May 2007 The UN refugee agency is running a provocative international advertising campaign that employs shock tactics to raise awareness about its work and drum up public support for refugees. -
Ruling highlights problems skilled refugees face finding work in Canada
17 Jan 2007 After a 13-year legal battle, former refugee Fatima Siadat earlier this month moved a step closer to winning the right to teach in the Canadian province of Ontario. Her case is being watched closely by others facing difficulty having their qualifications recognised. -
From Jordan's harsh Ruweished desert camp to a new life in Ottawa
11 Jan 2007 Labiba Eisa and her family have moved from one extreme to another. After more than three years of uncertainty and suffering in a harsh desert camp in Jordan, they were resettled early last month in the wintry climes of Canada -
Iraqi refugee family traverses half the globe seeking a new home
27 Dec 2006 For one Iraqi, the search for a better life has taken him half-way around the world and thrown him into the clutches of people smugglers. Now safe in Indonesia, but only allowed to stay temporarily, he and his wife and three daughters dream of making a permanent home in a country like Australia. -
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. -
Star-crossed Angolan refugee begins a new life in Canada
4 Sep 2006 Angolan refugee Christine Dimfueni has had a hard life, losing both parents when she was young, suffering the death of a child and seeing her husband murdered. Today, she is looking forward to a better life in Canada, where she was resettled earlier this year under a UNHCR programme. -
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. -
Canadian programme gives hope to Afghan refugees in Central Asia
14 Jun 2006 More than 2,700 Afghan refugees in Central Asia have been given a new lease on life in the last two years through the Canadian accelerated resettlement programme in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. -
Rwandan refugee's soap opera promoting tolerance wins film festival award
10 May 2006 A UNHCR-produced soap opera promoting tolerance and directed by a Rwandan refugee living in Côte d'Ivoire has won the Audience Award at a film festival in the capital, Abidjan.