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UNHCR continues operations to help displaced people in north-west Pakistan
29 Jun 2009UNHCR staff in north-west Pakistan report that displaced people are visiting their areas of origin on a ‘go and see’ basis, to harvest crops, check on livestock and generally assess the possibility of returning home.
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PRINCESS HAYA URGES DONATIONS FOR PAKISTAN
26 Jun 2009Her Royal Highness Princess Haya Bint Al-Hussein has called for a massive international aid effort to assist hundreds of thousands of people recently uprooted by fighting in Pakistan’s north-west region.
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Chad: first group of refugees depart for resettlement in the USA
25 Jun 2009A first group of 11 refugees left the Chadian capital N’Djamena by air on Sunday (21 June), to be resettled in the United States.
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UNHCR annual report shows 42 million people uprooted worldwide
16 Jun 2009The number of people forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution worldwide stood at 42 million at the end of last year amid a sharp slowdown in repatriation and more prolonged conflicts resulting in protracted displacement.
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UNHCR mourns loss of staff member killed in Pakistan bombing
10 Jun 2009UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres today led staff worldwide in mourning a UNHCR colleague, Aleksandar Vorkapic, who was killed Tuesday night in the bombing of a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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UNHCR concerned about conditions in IDP sites in Sri Lanka
20 May 2009s the fighting in north-east Sri Lanka comes to an end, the scale of the challenges facing UNHCR and other humanitarian agencies on the ground become more apparent.
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Pakistan displacement update
20 May 2009In north-west Pakistan, thousands of displaced people continue to arrive in camps and to approach registration centres.
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Somalia displacement update
20 May 2009Despite the lull in fighting in Mogadishu, the number of people fleeing the Somali capital in the last 12 days has now risen to 45,000.
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UNHCR urges meeting on irregular migration in Mediterranean
20 May 2009High Commissioner António Guterres has asked the European Commission to consider convening a meeting between Italy, Malta, Libya, UNHCR and other relevant partners to work on a joint strategy for a more satisfactory response to irregular migration across the Mediterranean, following Italy’s recent ‘push-backs’ to Libya.
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