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Out in the Cold: migrants and asylum seekers find life increasingly hard in Calais
2 Feb 2010 Icy weather, lack of accommodation and police harassment in the French port of Calais are making life hard for irregular migrants and asylum-seekers, especially the younger ones. -
French children learn about refugees by sending them their toys
29 Jan 2010 UNHCR, a Parisian museum and an aviation charity, with the help of French schoolchildren, send more than 1,000 toys to a refugee camp in Tanzania. -
The Jungle is empty, but UNHCR still helps migrants in northern France
17 Nov 2009 Weeks after a makeshift camp was dismantled in Calais, UNHCR continues to seek out and advise migrants and asylum-seekers along France's northern coast. -
France dismantles a migrant camp at Calais
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French Minister meets with High Commissioner regarding mixed migration
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Q&A with photojournalist Howard Davies: Documenting the displaced in northern France
14 Aug 2009 Seven years after a similar settlement closed, a photographer returns to a camp in northern France created by migrants and asylum seekers. -
UNHCR draws road map to help people out of Calais "jungle"
17 Jul 2009 Hundreds of migrants and asylum-seekers are living rough on the edge of the French port of Calais. The UN refugee agency has drawn up a road map to help find a solution for some of them. -
France gives red carpet welcome to refugees relocated from Malta
10 Jul 2009 A group of refugees and people in need of international protection are warmly received in Paris after France agreed to their relocation from Malta. -
UNHCR returns to Calais to provide migrants, refugees with information
17 Jun 2009 UNHCR staff are visiting Calais on a weekly basis to visit migrants and refugees and the agency plans to reopen an office in the French port seven years after leaving.