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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR welcomes Georgia's accession to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[GENEVA - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) welcomes the decision of Georgia to accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. The instruments of accession were deposited at the...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Georgia project leads the way for socio-economic integration of refugees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR and UNDP launch a project to ease the socio-economic integration of Chechen refugees in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge and support local development. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR computer centres offer education, jobs and a future in Georgia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR-funded computer centres in Georgia help thousands of forcibly displaced people to improve their knowledge, gain qualifications and find jobs.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 1 Oct 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Renovated registry office to ease integration of Chechen refugees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR funds renovation of civil registry agency in Georgia to help ease integration of Chechen refugees in the Pankisi Gorge and build local capacity.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Displaced in Georgia get access to computer and information technology]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR expands its Community Technology Access programme to Georgia, giving displaced people access to computers for education and livelihood purposes.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 1 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Assistance in Pankisi Gorge to focus on development as UNHCR exits ]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR will remove itself from the aid programme for Chechen refugees in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge and hand over responsibility to UN Development Programme. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chechen refugee finds an outlet for his talent in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A UNHCR-funded income-generation project helps a former policeman and his wife to become self-sufficient as refugees in north-east Georgia.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR annual report shows 42 million people uprooted worldwide]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The 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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Georgia issues travel documents to Chechen refugees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The Georgian government has for the first time granted Chechen refugees the right to travel overseas, earning praise from the UN refugee agency.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 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[Georgia: Massive returns to buffer zone]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Over the past week, UNHCR has witnessed a massive return of Georgian internally displaced people (IDPs) to their villages in the buffer zone around the Georgian breakaway province of South Ossetia. Our...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 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[Five Challenging Weeks: UNHCR's Response to Humanitarian Crisis in Georgia, 8 August to 13 September 2008]]></title> 
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Emergency Operation in Georgia: Report for 19 September 2008]]></title> 
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR distributes first aid in Georgia-South Ossetia "buffer zone"]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Villagers who had fled the August conflict have now received the first distribution of beds, mattresses, blankets and kitchen kits to begin to rebuild their lives back home in the north of Georgia.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR teams enter Georgia "buffer zone"]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Our teams in Georgia have finally succeeded in entering the so-called "buffer zone" north of the town of Gori over the weekend. The zone, controlled by Russian Military Forces, has been out of our reach...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Emergency Operation in Georgia: Report for 16 September 2008]]></title> 
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR teams enter Georgia-South Ossetia "buffer zone"]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR teams enter a buffer zone between South Ossetia and the Georgian town of Gori, which has been out of reach due to the security situation.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Georgia: Internal displacment estimate rises]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Based on detailed profiling of internally displaced persons in Georgia that was just completed by the authorities in cooperation with UNHCR, the statistics on displacement associated with the August conflict...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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