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English church leaders launch gift appeal for asylum seekers and refugees
23 Dec 2005 Amidst a media climate sometimes hostile towards refugees and asylum seekers, churchgoers from across England's Midlands are reaching out to exiles over the festive season by delivering gifts to those forced to seek protection in the United Kingdom. -
Taking Bosnia's temperature, 10 years after Dayton
21 Nov 2005 The current issue of UNHCR's Refugees magazine is devoted to an examination of the good, the bad and the ugly, ten years after the Dayton Peace Accords brought an end to the three-and-a-half-year war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, stimulating the return home of more than a million displaced Bosnians, and around 2.5 million across the Balkans as a whole. -
British choppers start airlifting large quantities of UNHCR aid to remote villages
16 Nov 2005 Two giant British RAF helicopters on Wednesday began a new airlift of thousands of UNHCR tents, blankets and other aid items to a string of stranded and heavily damaged villages in a remote valley in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. -
"Not the Ideal Home Show" wins award at UK Labour Party Conference
29 Sep 2005 A myth-busting UNHCR canvas tent, airlifted to the UK and refitted to resemble the typical shabby British bed-sit used to house asylum seekers, has received an award by British Prime Minister Tony Blair. -
Not everyone flies from the cuckoo's nest
26 Aug 2005 A group of 29 elderly mental patients have been stranded at a refugee reception centre in Hungary since they were evacuated from their mental ward in Bosnia and Herzegovina 13 years ago. They want to go home, but the Bosnian health care system is unable to take care of them. -
London salutes local coverage of refugees
16 Aug 2005 In a bid to turn around some of the hostile coverage and highlight good practices by sections of London's press, Mayor Ken Livingstone recently launched the London Local Press Awards to draw positive attention to the contributions made by refugees and asylum seekers to London's thriving ethnic mosaic. -
Remembering Srebrenica
8 Jul 2005 Bosnia and Herzegovina commemorates the 10th anniversary of the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II as the country also looks to the future almost a decade after the guns fell silent. -
UNHCR records big hits at Glastonbury
1 Jul 2005 More than 3,000 people flocked to the UNHCR stand at Europe's largest open-air music festival in the United Kingdom. Festival-goers got a glimpse of life as a refugee through exhibitions, interactive games and fortune cookies debunking myths about refugees and asylum seekers. -
This is the best place in the world, Bosnian returnee tells UN official
17 Jun 2005 On a recent visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Walter Kälin, the UN Secretary-General's Representative on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, spoke to returnees who were happy to be home despite facing some difficulties settling back in.