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Afghan trainee chef has the recipe to make it in Hungary
27 Oct 2014 Six years ago, Zia Karimi was a teenager in Pakistan, his life in turmoil after fleeing Afghanistan. Now he is a trainee chef in a top Budapest hotel with a career plan. -
UNHCR paper urges Hungary to improve treatment of asylum seekers
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Legal Catch-22 leaves newborn child with citizenship "unknown"
29 Dec 2011 According to his birth certificate, Glody is neither Congolese – like his mother and father, who are refugees – nor Hungarian, despite being born there. -
Hungarian university students highlight work of UNHCR section in video
16 May 2011 Students at Budapest's Moholy-Nagy Media Design University take part in a contest aimed at showcasing UNHCR's Supply Management Service. -
Q&A: Former Bosnian refugee promotes technology to bring hope to the displaced
24 Nov 2010 Leila Toplic fled from Bosnia and Herzegovina when she was 18. Today, she works in Paris for Microsoft while also helping to raise awareness about refugees. -
Down and out in Budapest: Somali refugees face winter struggle
27 Jan 2010 Dozens of Somali urban refugees in Hungary are facing a tough winter due, in part, to shortcomings in the integration system. UNHCR is trying to ensure they get help. -
Last Bosnian refugees in Hungary return to psychiatric care centre after two decades in exile
23 Oct 2009 A group of vulnerable refugees with mental illnesses, evacuated from Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, have finally returned to their homeland. -
Integration systems in Central Europe at breaking point
8 Jul 2009 Many refugees are finding life difficult in the Central European countries where they live because of insufficient integration polices and support. -
Sissi's bequest helps refugee children 111 years after her murder
27 Apr 2009 The legendary Empress Elisabeth of Austria helps refugee children in Budapest more than 100 years after she was stabbed to death in Switzerland.