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Protracted Refugee Situations: Bangladesh camp life improves, but home is best
10 Dec 2008 Uddin fled his native Myanmar in 1991 and sought refuge in Bangladesh. With training and education from UNHCR, he prospered in a refugee camp. But he still misses his village after years of exile. -
Overshadowed by displacement in Sri Lanka's north, people return home in the east
6 Nov 2008 While global attention has been focused on the hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by fighting in northern Sri Lanka in recent weeks, UNHCR is helping other displaced people in the east to go back and rebuild their homes. -
Widows and orphans in Myanmar face dangers six months after Nargis
31 Oct 2008 UNHCR has helped some 200,000 people with plastic sheets and mosquito nets in the six months since Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, but remains concerned about the welfare of many widows and orphans. -
Welcome to Prague: first Myanmar refugees resettle in Czech Republic
31 Oct 2008 The Czech Republic has joined the ranks of eight EU resettlement countries with the arrival this week of 23 Myanmar refugees, some of whom had been in exile in Malaysia for nearly 10 years. -
UNHCR deeply concerned about newly displaced in Sri Lanka's north
8 Aug 2008 As the conflict intensifies in northern Sri Lanka, the UN refugee agency has called for urgent steps to ensure the protection of thousands of displaced families and unhindered passage for humanitarian aid. -
Czech mission to Malaysia paving way for landmark resettlement programme
24 Jul 2008 A pilot programme to take Myanmar refugees to Central Europe will make the Czech Republic the first ex-Eastern Bloc nation to become a resettlement country. -
UNHCR cards give refugees in Bangladesh individual identities
23 Jul 2008 With the issuance this month of UNHCR ID cards for the first time, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh will be recognized as individuals. -
Helicopters bring shelter, hope for Myanmar's cyclone victims
3 Jul 2008 UNHCR used UN helicopters this week to deliver badly-needed shelter kits to traumatized residents of remote villages in Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta. -
Resettlement of Myanmar refugees from Thailand tops 30,000
25 Jun 2008 More than 30,000 Myanmar refugees have now left camps in Thailand to start new lives in third countries.