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2,000 refugees from Myanmar flee to Thailand after renewed conflict
24 May 2006 Over the last three months some 2,000 refugees from Myanmar have arrived in Thailand saying they are fleeing renewed conflict and human rights abuses in Kayin state in Myanmar. Some 400 crossed the border last week and more are expected. -
New lease of life for refugee women's protection clinic in India
23 Mar 2006 A much-valued UNHCR women's protection clinic in West Delhi, India aimed at helping refugee women from Myanmar was facing closure until the Australian government stepped in. With the help of their funding it will now stay open until the end of the year. -
UNHCR welcomes Thai decision to expand education for refugees
20 Dec 2005 Over 140,000 refugees from Myanmar living in camps in Thailand are set to benefit from a decision by the government to provide broad educational services in the nine camps in the country. UNHCR is delighted by the decision under which the refugees will learn Thai and English as well as useful vocational skills. -
Rohingya refugees living in tough conditions in Bangladesh camps
21 Sep 2005 After fleeing persecution in Myanmar in the early 1990s, some 20,500 Rohingya refugees continue to live in tough conditions in camps in Bangladesh, unwilling to repatriate and uncertain about their future. -
Rohingyas from Myanmar living in risky conditions in Bangladesh
19 Jul 2005 More than 6,000 ethnic Muslims from Myanmar are living in risky and squalid conditions on river flats in Cox's Bazar district, vulnerable to seasonal high tides and flooding. A joint initiative including UNHCR recently visited them after months of urging the Bangladesh government to move them to safer ground. -
UNHCR welcomes acceptance of resettled refugees in Sheffield, UK
19 May 2005 More than 50 refugees from Myanmar have arrived in the United Kingdom as part of a joint government-UNHCR resettlement initiative aimed at helping long-term refugees with protection problems in their country of first asylum. -
UNHCR and Thailand start huge refugee re-registration
16 Dec 2004 In a massive joint operation, UNHCR and the Thai government have started to re-register the entire population of the nine refugee camps in Thailand that are currently sheltering an estimated 140,000 refugees who fled from Myanmar some years earlier. -
UNHCR to start mobile registration in Malaysia's jungle camps
10 Dec 2004 Ahead of an expected crackdown on illegal migrants, the refugee agency is sending mobile teams to provide documentation to refugees and asylum seekers living in fear and dire conditions. It is also pressing the government to issue temporary stay permits to Rohingyas, as promised. -
Refugees in Malaysia's jungle camps face harsh life, fear crackdown
30 Nov 2004 Living in harsh conditions in makeshift jungle camps on the outskirts of Malaysia's gleaming new administrative capital of Putra Jaya, are thousands of refugees and asylum seekers. They live in fear of police raids and an imminent crackdown on illegal migrants.