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Uzbek refugees wait in Romania for resettlement: "I went to the bazaar and ended up in a refugee camp"
7 Feb 2006 Last May, life abruptly changed for hundreds of Uzbeks in the town of Andijan, forced by violence to flee to neighbouring Kyrgyzstan. Of 439 who were moved to Romania last July to await permanent resettlement, more than 100 have now left for their permanent new homes. -
Student journalists face the challenge of reporting on asylum
27 Dec 2005 An Irish journalism student recently won a UNHCR competition for reporting on asylum issues. The prize was a trip to Romania to witness developments in refugee protection on the borders of the European Union. -
Post-tsunami housing crisis brings split couple happily together again
27 Dec 2005 The desire to rebuild a life again after the grief and loss of the tsunami has led to the happy reconciliation of a separated Sri Lankan couple. The unlikely catalyst for getting together again was the prospect of a UNHCR transitional shelter. -
UNHCR completes its post-tsunami shelter commitments in Sri Lanka
21 Dec 2005 In the immediate aftermath of last December's devastating tsunami, providing transitional shelter for the hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans who had seen their homes dashed to pieces seemed a daunting task. However, UNHCR and its partner agencies have overcome many obstacles to complete the 55,000 shelters they promised. -
UNHCR says target of 55,000 tsunami shelters reached in Sri Lanka
22 Nov 2005 The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday that it has wound up its post-tsunami role as coordinator of a nation-wide transitional shelter effort in Sri Lanka, after the target of more than 55,000 shelters was achieved with the help of more than 100 non-governmental organizations. -
Sri Lankan tsunami survivors paint the town red ... and purple, and blue
25 Oct 2005 Almost all the more than 200,000 Sri Lankans left homeless by last December's tsunami have now been accommodated in so-called "transitional shelters" - a sort of half-way house between emergency accommodation and permanent new housing which will take a few more years to complete. Some of them are treating their new temporary homes with both imagination and respect. -
New group of Palestinians stuck in no-man's land between Iraq and Syria
7 Oct 2005 Revealing that a group of 19 Palestinian refugees are stuck in no-man's land between Iraq and Syria, the UN refugee agency said on Friday it was very concerned about the safety of Palestinian refugees in Iraq, some of whom have been forced to leave the capital Baghdad as a result of increased harassment and intimidation. -
Uzbek refugees set to fly from Kyrgyzstan to Romania
28 Jul 2005 UN refugee agency chief António Guterres has welcomed Romania's decision to temporarily accept a group of Uzbek refugees now in Kyrgyzstan, and assured Romania that UNHCR will transfer them to permanent resettlement countries as soon as possible. -
Child's death highlights refugees' plight on Iraq-Jordan border
15 Apr 2005 A recent fire that killed a three-year-old girl and left severe burns on two other Palestinian refugees has shed the spotlight once again on the hundreds of refugees who have been stranded around the Jordan-Iraq border for almost two years.