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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR official reviews needs assessment approach in Ecuador]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UN Deputy High Commissioner L. Craig Johnstone discusses Global Needs Assessment programme with Ecuador officials and visits Colombian refugees.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Roll-out of Global Needs Assessment and Focus to the field starts]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A three month worldwide roll-out of the Global Needs Assessment and Focus results-based management software has begun, with teams from UNHCR headquarters fanning out to hold week-long workshops in more than 30 UNHCR field locations.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Georgia's long-standing IDPs want international help too]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR sees an opportunity to use the spotlight on recent problems in Georgia to help those displaced from breakaway regions in the early 1990s.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR hopes to improve conditions for returnees to Abkhazia in 2009]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR hopes next year to step up support for returnees in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia as part of a new approach to needs assessment and fund-raising.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR'S Global Needs Assessment pilot shows gaps]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Thursday, 9 October 2008 GENEVA - A comprehensive assessment of the needs of refugees and other people cared for by the UN refugee agency in eight pilot countries has revealed some substantial and disturbing...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 9 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR'S Global Needs Assessment pilot shows substantial gaps]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UN's deputy chief says comprehensive assessment of the needs of the uprooted in pilot countries shows substantial and disturbing gaps that must be addressed.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 9 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ExCom: World's poor, displaced must not be forgotten; UNHCR chief tells annual meeting]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The annual meeting of UNHCR's governing body opens with a warning that the welfare of the world's poor and uprooted people is increasingly at risk.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 6 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chechen refugees in Pankisi Gorge resume normal life after Georgia scare]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Chechen refugees feared the worst during the conflict over South Ossetia, but their homes in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge were left untouched and life is returning to normal.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fifty-two Somalis perish in Gulf of Aden smuggling incident]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ 28 September 2008 SANA'A, Yemen - At least 52 Somalis died when the boat smuggling them across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen broke down and they were left adrift with no food or water for 18 days, the UN...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Revised figures push number of Georgia displaced up to 192,000]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Latest figures gathered by the Georgian government and UNHCR show that the total number of people displaced by the recent conflict stands at 192,000.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[At least 26 people dead in Gulf of Aden smuggling incident]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR reports at least 26 people dead after smugglers transporting them across the Gulf of Aden forced them overboard off the coast of Yemen.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gulf of Aden crossings soar in August over year earlier]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR says the smuggling of people across the Gulf of Aden was much higher than usual in August, when there is normally a lull due to rougher weather.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR helps Congolese refugees return home across Lake Tanganyika]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The pace of repatriation of Congolese refugees from camps in Tanzania is picking up, but their reintegration in South Kivu province comes with challenges.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 5 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Riverboat brings medical care to Ecuador's isolated refugee communities]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A new floating health service brings urgently needed care to locals and Colombian refugees in Ecuadorean settlements on the San Miguel River.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 2 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR concern as shelter capacity in Georgia town of Gori is exhausted]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR is concerned about the humanitarian situation in and around the Georgian town of Gori, just south of the boundary with South Ossetia.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 2 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Growing numbers of displaced return to their homes in Georgia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR opens an office in the Georgian town of Gori as more and more people return to their homes south of the breakaway South Ossetia region.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA["Hazelnut refugees" may soon be able to sleep at home again]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Conflict may have forced the people of Ganmuhuri to flee from the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, but it could not stop them from returning to harvest their hazelnuts.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR chief arrives in Georgia; urges donors to help aid effort]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[High Commissioner Guterres meets people uprooted by the recent fighting in and around South Ossetia and discusses the situation with Georgian officials.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Second UNHCR airlift reaches Georgia; aid for 40,000 being distributed]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Sixty-six tonnes of relief items have reached Tbilisi from UNHCR's stockpiles in Dubai on two flights so far. Despite a carjacking incident involving two UNHCR vehicles, the agency continues to distribute aid to the neediest victims of South Ossetia conflict. Two airlifts are also expected to bring aid supplies to North Ossetia next week.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Yemen's coast guards rescue boat people; six still missing]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Nearly 160 people have been rescued by Yemen's Coast Guards after their boat broke down in the Gulf of Aden. Six are still missing amid wider fears that smuggling season could be starting earlier and in higher numbers than before.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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