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First group of 35 Palestinians leave Jordan for new life in Brazil
20 Sep 2007 Thirty-five elated Palestinians boarded a plane at Amman's international airport on Thursday and flew off to a new life in Brazil after years of hardship in an isolated desert camp in Jordan. -
Surge in violence displaces thousands in Sri Lanka's Mannar district
7 Sep 2007 More than 3,000 have fled their homes in northern Sri Lanka's district of Mannar over the past week to escape fresh fighting between government troops and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). -
Sri Lankan singer rises from displaced person to superstar
27 Aug 2007 Sasiskaran's face has beamed down from posters all over the Sri Lankan capital Colombo since his win in a nationwide talent show made him a superstar. But few people know that the young singing sensation was an internally displaced person when he became a music idol. -
More than 4,500 Sri Lankan IDPs return home in Trincomalee district
6 Aug 2007 In eastern Sri Lanka, internally displaced people have been returning home to their villages in groups of several hundred during June and July. They say living in their own homes is preferable to being displaced, and are grateful for support from the UN refugee agency, but say they will still face a struggle to rebuild their lives. -
UNHCR official calls on Sri Lanka to double its efforts to assist IDPs
13 Jul 2007 Assistant High Commissioner for Operations Judy Cheng-Hopkins has called on the Sri Lankan government to double its efforts to allocate land to displaced people and allow them to move out of the welfare centres they have been living in for more than two decades. -
UNHCR calls for seriously ill Palestinian children in Iraq to be medevaced
29 Jun 2007 The UN refugee agency has issued an urgent plea for the immediate evacuation of at least a dozen seriously ill Palestinians stuck in Baghdad or in a makeshift camp on the Iraqi border with Syria. -
Palestinians stuck on border with Syria in desperate need of help
26 Jun 2007 A UN refugee agency team has found that the situation of more than 1,400 Palestinians who have fled Baghdad and are stranded in camps on the Iraq-Syria border is deteriorating by the day. -
UNHCR helps government start return of 90,000 IDPs to Batticaloa district
15 May 2007 The government has launched a programme to return tens of thousands of displaced people to their homes in an area of eastern Sri Lanka that was under rebel control until recently. The first 3,000 people were bussed to their homes in West Batticaloa district on Monday. -
UNHCR concerned about conditions for Palestinians at border camp
15 May 2007 The UN refugee agency is highly concerned about living conditions for hundreds of Palestinians stuck at the Al Waleed refugee camp close to Iraq's border with Syria. The agency is particularly worried about lack of adequate medical facilities.