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Helping Crimean Tatars feel at home again
8 Jun 2005 Decades after they were deported from the Crimean peninsula under the Stalin regime, thousands of Tatars have returned to their ancestral homeland, now part of Ukraine. Simplified procedures have allowed most of them to become Ukrainian citizens, but the challenges of reintegration remain. -
Ukraine offers new home for asylum seekers
2 Dec 2004 An accommodation centre recently opened in Odessa to meet the housing needs of asylum seekers. Funded by the Ukrainian government and the European Union, it is part of efforts to strengthen the asylum system in EU bordering states in eastern Europe. -
Ukraine, Sri Lanka provide models for solving statelessness
6 Oct 2004 UN refugee agency chief Ruud Lubbers has reminded states that there are several million stateless people in the world today and introduced Ukraine and Sri Lanka as positive examples of countries that had found resolutions for the huge and hidden problem. -
New school year, new clothes for refugee children in Ukraine
22 Sep 2004 Hennes and Mauritz (H&M) Europe has donated more than 30,000 pieces of new clothing worth some 95,000 euros to refugees, asylum seekers and other vulnerable people in Ukraine's Kyiv, Odesa and Zakarpattia regions. -
UNHCR training helps sensitise Kyiv's police to asylum issues
29 Jul 2004 The UN refugee agency and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society recently held a training session in Kyiv, Ukraine, to train police officers on ways to improve the implementation of refugee legislation and to prevent undue detention and deportation of asylum seekers. -
Ukraine relieves refugees of baggage of exile
7 Jul 2004 Under a revised refugee law in Ukraine, refugees can apply for Convention Travel Documents that will let them leave and return to their host country, whether for professional or personal reasons. -
"No paint, no gain" for Afghan artist in Ukraine
22 Jan 2004 As a former refugee now naturalised in Ukraine, Akbar Khurasani has drawn on his refugee experiences to create a painting that he has now donated to the UN refugee agency. -
UNHCR voices concern over murder of Rwandan doctor in Ukraine
13 Jul 2001 The U.N. refugee agency said today it was shocked by the murder last weekend in Ukraine of a Rwandan refugee doctor and respected community leader.