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Central, Eastern Europe aim to improve refugee status decisions
18 Sep 2008 Eight European Union countries, now meeting in Budapest, are to spend 18 months reviewing and developing the quality of their asylum status decisions. -
From Mogadishu to Budapest: A refugee's journey to EU citizenship
10 Jul 2008 A half Hungarian, half Somali refugee finds a new life and a new family in southern Hungary after a gruelling journey to freedom. -
UNHCR opens new global service centre in Hungary
29 Feb 2008 High Commissioner António Guterres and Hungarian Foreign Minister Kinga Göncz preside over the opening of UNHCR's new Global Service Centre. -
Slovakia: New agreement on border and airport monitoring
18 Sep 2007 -
Roma head for Sweden to escape extreme poverty, alleged discrimination in Hungary
12 Dec 2006 Members of Hungary's Roma community have been seeking asylum in Sweden in unprecedented numbers in recent months, pleading poverty and alleging widespread discrimination in labour and education in the eastern European nation. -
Hungarian refugee crisis presented Ireland with a new challenge
6 Nov 2006 The Hungarian refugee crisis of 1956 provided a new challenge for Ireland, an impoverished country whose own people had been leaving by the hundreds of thousands in search of a brighter future overseas. The country was one of the 37 nations to accept Hungarians for resettlement. -
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Hungarian uprising and refugee crisis
23 Oct 2006 The 1956 uprising, and the extraordinary refugee relief and resettlement operation that it spawned, helped shape the way humanitarian organisations - not least UNHCR - were to deal with refugee crises for decades to come. -
Hungarian Uprising 50th anniversary marked by UNHCR
10 Oct 2006 -
Refugees Magazine Issue 144 ("Where Are They Now? The Hungarian Refugees, 50 Years On") - Editorial: The 50th Anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising
1 Oct 2006