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Exiles in UK criticise pre-election focus on asylum
9 May 2005 Some asylum seekers and refugees in the United Kingdom have voiced concern about the heightened focus on immigration and asylum in the campaigning leading up to last week's elections, saying it fed negative sentiments towards foreigners rather than a better understanding of asylum issues. -
Reaching out to Rwandan refugees in Congolese forest
14 Mar 2005 Despite instability in the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, UNHCR continues to run its 17 assembly points to help repatriate Rwandan refugees emerging from years in the forest. -
Hundreds of Burundians flee for Rwanda, citing fears of violence
11 Mar 2005 More than 800 Burundians have arrived in neighbouring Rwanda in the last two weeks amid a reported rise in tensions surrounding a recent referendum. This, together with the worsening food shortage in northern Burundi, could affect the repatriation of Burundian refugees. -
"Hotel Rwanda" opens doors for special screening by UNHCR, United Artists
17 Nov 2004 UNHCR and United Artists recently held a private screening of the award-winning film, which tells the true story of a man who saved more than 1,000 people by hiding them in his hotel during the 1994 Rwanda genocide. The event also sought to highlight the Darfur crisis and refugee issues in general. -
UNHCR urges festival campers to think of real refugees' plight
28 Jun 2004 In an attempt to sensitise young people in the UK to the plight of refugees, the refugee agency handed out a Camp Challenge to revellers at the Glastonbury music festival last weekend, drawing comparisons between camping at Glastonbury and living in real refugee camps like the ones in Chad. -
Tensions in DR Congo may affect refugee assistance, warns UNHCR
8 Jun 2004 The refugee agency has had to suspend return convoys to Rwanda from Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since fighting began in the town over a week ago. The insecurity has also led UN agencies, including UNHCR, to evacuate some staff, thereby affecting assistance efforts in the area. -
UNHCR concerned about tensions in DR Congo
3 Jun 2004 Hundreds of Congolese refugees have crossed the border into Rwanda following yesterday's fighting in the Bukavu region of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Tensions are high in Bukavu, while violence has broken out in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi. -
UNHCR prepares for influx as hundreds flee Bukavu for Rwanda
2 Jun 2004 More than 2,000 Congolese have fled fighting in eastern DR Congo for neighbouring Rwanda. UNHCR has rushed relief supplies to the border area, and is working to expand a nearby transit centre should more refugees arrive. -
After the horrors, Rwandans learn to live together again
8 Apr 2004 In Rwanda, memories of the 1994 genocide are still fresh in everyone's minds. Nevertheless, Rwandan refugees are returning to their homeland to embrace the government's reconciliation efforts and to learn to co-exist with their neighbours.