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US initiative offers asylum-seekers an alternative to detention
25 Nov 2009 UNHCR’s top protection chief welcomes US focus on providing immigrants and asylum-seekers with an alternative to detention while their cases are processed. -
Caribbean conundrums as UNHCR strives to protect refugees
18 Nov 2009 Every year, thousands of people try to reach North America via the Caribbean. UNHCR is providing vital pieces in the protection jigsaw that covers the region. -
The Jungle is empty, but UNHCR still helps migrants in northern France
17 Nov 2009 Weeks after a makeshift camp was dismantled in Calais, UNHCR continues to seek out and advise migrants and asylum-seekers along France's northern coast. -
UNHCR concerned about children in mixed migration flows through Mexico
12 Nov 2009 Dozens of child protection officers in Mexico work to ensure the rights of unaccompanied minors caught in the south-north mixed migration flows. -
Last Bosnian refugees in Hungary return to psychiatric care centre after two decades in exile
23 Oct 2009 A group of vulnerable refugees with mental illnesses, evacuated from Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, have finally returned to their homeland. -
Corporate partners announce projects with UNHCR at annual Clinton Global Initiative meet
25 Sep 2009 UNHCR and two of its corporate partners announce technology-based projects that will improve the lives of tens of thousands of refugees in Africa and Asia. -
Number of refugees from Bhutan resettled from Nepal passes 20,000 mark
8 Sep 2009 A young girl becomes the 20,000th refugee from Bhutan to leave Nepal for a new life under one of the UN refugee agency’s largest resettlement programmes. -
High Commissioner Guterres urges swift end to displacement chapter in Western Balkans
28 Aug 2009 Drawing attention to the lingering problem of refugees reluctant or unable to return to their homes 14 years after hostilities ended in the Western Balkans, UNHCR High Commissioner António Guterres said, “it is time to close the chapter of refugees in this region once and for all.” -
Q&A with photojournalist Howard Davies: Documenting the displaced in northern France
14 Aug 2009 Seven years after a similar settlement closed, a photographer returns to a camp in northern France created by migrants and asylum seekers.