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Iraqi refugee family traverses half the globe seeking a new home
27 Dec 2006 For one Iraqi, the search for a better life has taken him half-way around the world and thrown him into the clutches of people smugglers. Now safe in Indonesia, but only allowed to stay temporarily, he and his wife and three daughters dream of making a permanent home in a country like Australia. -
Vietnamese local governments smooth the way for stateless Cambodians
8 Nov 2006 The Vietnamese government has never granted citizenship to some 9,500 former Cambodian refugees living in the country since 1975, but at authorities at the local level do their best to extend equal rights to this forgotten group. -
Stateless former Cambodians caught in Kafkaesque web in Viet Nam
30 Oct 2006 The UN refugee agency is working with the Vietnamese government to try to get citizenship for some 9,500 former Cambodian refugees who were left stateless when their country refused to take them back. Now in Viet Nam with no legal rights for more than three decades, they only want to be what they already feel they are - Vietnamese citizens. -
Small sums go a long way to improve lives in Viet Nam's Central Highlands
21 Sep 2006 In the remote villages of Viet Nam's Central Highlands, small-scale projects developed by the UN refugee agency are offering medical care and better education to minority Montagnard hill tribe people as well as majority Vietnamese. -
Montagnards not punished for leaving Viet Nam, UNHCR mission finds
19 Sep 2006 A team of UNHCR officials monitoring the treatment of minority Montagnard hill tribe people in Viet Nam heard from the returnees that they have not suffered any repercussions after leaving the country illegally for what they hoped would be an easy life in the distant United States. -
Montagnards find peace and new homeland in Finland
31 Aug 2006 The Chung family were among 71 Montagnards from Viet Nam offered new homes in Finland last year under a UNHCR resettlement programme. It is a far cry from their former highland homes, but the group are settling in well, especially the younger generation. -
Cambodia, Viet Nam and UNHCR agree on further Montagnard cooperation
22 Aug 2006 Cambodia, Viet Nam and UNHCR have agreed to further cooperate on finding solutions for Montagnards leaving Viet Nam's Central Highlands and crossing into Cambodia. Monitoring of returnees by the UN refugee agency will continue, while the voluntary repatriation process and joint missions by UNHCR and the Cambodian authorities to retrieve Montagnard asylum seekers will be sped up. -
Training Vietnamese provincial officials creates greater understanding of UNHCR's Montagnard monitoring
18 May 2006 Since Montagnards began returning to their homes in Viet Nam's Central Highlands from Cambodia, UNHCR has been involved in monitoring their situation under the terms of an agreement signed in Hanoi in January 2005. A recent training session of provincial authorities in the Vietnamese coastal city of Da Nang created a greater understanding of UNHCR's role and refugee law. -
Assistant High Commissioner cautiously optimistic over Montagnard returnee situation in Viet Nam's Central Highlands
27 Apr 2006 After a two-day official visit to Viet Nam's Central Highlands to see for herself Montagnard returnees from Cambodia, UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Erika Feller, said she was "cautiously optimistic about how their situation is evolving."