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Looking for lessons among past refugee crises
7 Jul 2017 At a dialogue about sharing responsibility for refugees, stakeholders reflect on responses to earlier crises in Kosovo*, Guatemala and Viet Nam. -
Mediterranean crisis sees former Vietnamese boat person break long silence
6 Jul 2015 Well known Danish chef tells of harrowing memories as five-year-old refugee. -
Statelessness: Former refugees win citizenship, and now dream of home ownership
15 Sep 2011 After 35 years of stateless limbo in Viet Nam, a Cambodian man is now a citizen with the prospect of a real home. -
Preventing Statelessness: Southeast Asian countries share lessons
29 Oct 2010 In Bangkok, experts from nine countries learn from each other the best ways to keep people from falling into legal limbo. -
Viet Nam ends stateless limbo for 2,300 former Cambodians
19 Jul 2010 Former refugees who have lived in Viet Nam for as long as 35 years get valuable documents – and the right to have rights. -
Q&A: A Vietnamese Catholic's journey from boat person to bishop
12 Mar 2010 Former Vietnamese refugee Vincent Nguyen was recently ordained as Canada's youngest Catholic bishop and the first of Asian descent. He talks about his experiences. -
Viet Nam sets the pace for Asia with new law to prevent statelessness
1 Jul 2009 Under new legislation, Viet Nam will keep its tens of thousands of "economic brides" from risking the loss of citizenship when they marry foreign men. -
Refugee women crochet up sweaters, self-esteem and camaraderie
2 Jun 2009 A low-cost UNHCR project in Phnom Penh encourages women refugees and asylum seekers to pass on skills to each other that can help improve their lives back home. -
Vietnamese refugees well settled in China, await citizenship
10 May 2007 One of the most successful local integration programmes in the world has seen some 300,000 former Vietnamese nationals build new lives in China. Ethnically Chinese, these refugees now want formal citizenship in their adopted homeland.