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UNHCR to deploy team to help thousands of refugees in Uzbekistan
14 Jun 2010 UNHCR prepares to deploy an emergency team and aid to help thousands of refugees who have fled to Uzbekistan to escape conflict in southern Kyrgyzstan. -
Kyrgyzstan agrees on action plan to cut and prevent statelessness
22 Sep 2009 Kyrgyzstan to adopt a major plan of action to cut and prevent statelessness in a country where the national status of thousands of people is in legal limbo. -
UNHCR helps refugees in Kyrgyzstan make it through the winter
22 Apr 2009 Hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers in Kyrgyzstan thanked UNHCR for helping them survive the winter during a time of economic hardship. -
UNHCR supports school, sanitation projects in Kyrgyz host communities
28 Nov 2008 Locals, returnees, former refugees and stateless people in a northern Kyrgyzstan town benefit from an expanded pre-school and a new bathhouse funded by UNHCR to promote co-existence. -
Guterres wraps up fruitful first visit to Central Asia
16 Nov 2007 High Commissioner Guterres agrees to boost refugee assistance in the Kyrgyz Republic and urges Kazakhstan to help address the migration-asylum nexus. -
After generations away, Kazakhs come home to an independent country
9 Aug 2007 Some 600,000 ethnic Kazakhs have returned to Kazakhstan since independence, many after generations of life in other countries -
Helping Chechens back on their feet in Kazakhstan
16 Aug 2006 In Kazakhstan, people who fled conflict in the Russian republic of Chechnya are not admitted to the asylum system. The UN refugee agency is helping some 5,000 of them by providing grants and legal aid to improve their lives in exile. -
UNHCR shocked by extradition of Uzbeks from Kyrgyzstan
9 Aug 2006 UNHCR said it was shocked by Kyrgyzstan's extradition of four Uzbek refugees and one asylum seeker. The refugee agency said the move violated the 1951 Refugee Convention and it was worried about the safety of the five. -
UNHCR urges Kyrgyzstan government not to deport four Uzbek refugees
14 Jun 2006 After a final court ruling on their case, UNHCR has expressed concern about the fate of four Uzbek refugees arrested last year in western Kyrgyzstan after an extradition request from Uzbekistan. The refugee agency urged the Kyrgyz government not to forcibly return the four to their homeland and said it had found resettlement places overseas for them.