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Resettlement to Germany of Iraqi refugees in Syria gets under way
19 Mar 2009 A group of 122 vulnerable Iraqi refugees fly to northern German from Syria as a government programme to resettle 2,500 Iraqis officially gets under way. -
First Iraqi family departs Jordan for resettlement in Germany
16 Mar 2009 Germany's resettlement programme for Iraqi refugees gets under way as a family of three leaves Jordan for a new life in the southern city of Stuttgart. -
Rwandan refugee qualifies as a doctor thanks to DAFI programme
30 Jan 2009 A Rwandan refugee who found safety in South Africa has now added the title doctor before his name - thanks to the DAFI scholarship programme. -
Central, Eastern Europe aim to improve refugee status decisions
18 Sep 2008 Eight European Union countries, now meeting in Budapest, are to spend 18 months reviewing and developing the quality of their asylum status decisions. -
UNHCR's recommendations to the EU German Presidency
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Afghan students mark 15th year of German scholarship
18 Sep 2006 The Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative (DAFI) in Pakistan is one of the longest-running such scholarships in the world. More than 900 Afghans have received tertiary education thanks to this programme, but much more needs to be done to bridge the funding gap for younger students. -
A 'tsunami' in the Democratic Republic of the Congo every six months: Guterres urges help for one of the world's most under-funded emergencies
18 May 2006 In his first official visit to Germany, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has appealed to the international community to better support the desperately under-funded humanitarian emergency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. -
50 years on in Germany, Eastern Europe's displaced still remember UNHCR
5 Jan 2006 After the end of World War II, millions of people found themselves living outside their own country, including many slave labourers from Eastern Europe taken to Germany by the Nazis. One of UNHCR's first programmes was to provide housing and education for the most vulnerable of these uprooted people. Some 50 years later, the benefits of that programme are still being felt. -
Revocation procedures alarm Iraqi refugees in Germany
4 May 2005 More than 18,000 refugees in Germany, most of them Iraqis, are now subject to so-called revocation procedures stating that refugees should have their status revoked if the preconditions for granting asylum have ceased to exist. UNHCR has stressed that no Iraqis should be forced to return to the uncertainty at home.