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Refugees Magazine Issue 104 (UNHCR's World) - Russian Federation: A Vladivostok weekend
1 Jun 1996 Moscow-based Protection Officer Isabelle Mihoubi describes a very long but rewarding weekend in Vladivostok, in Russia's Far East. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 104 (UNHCR's World) - Displaced in Daghestan
1 Jun 1996 This Russian Federation republic is the base for UNHCR Field Officer Larry Hollingworth, who is helping displaced people from neighbouring Chechnya. -
UNHCR publication for CIS Conference (Displacement in the CIS) - In legal limbo: asylum-seekers and statelessness
1 May 1996 Asylum-seekers from non-CIS countries are also by and large new to the region. At the time of independence, none of the CIS countries had suitable systems to cope with them according to international norms. Other groups, which have fallen into a similar legal vacuum, are at present effectively stateless. -
UNHCR publication for CIS Conference (Displacement in the CIS) - Ecological disasters: the human cost
1 May 1996 The USSR left behind numerous heavily contaminated or polluted industrial, agricultural and nuclear sites. The three worst hit areas - Chernobyl, the Aral Sea and the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site - have already produced more than 700,000 ecological migrants, as well as very serious health concerns for those who remain. -
UNHCR publication for CIS Conference (Displacement in the CIS) - Punished peoples: the mass deportations of the 1940s
1 May 1996 Between 1936 and 1952, 3 million people were rounded up from their homes along the USSR's western borders and dumped thousands of miles away in Siberia and Central Asia. Fifty years later, some are still trying to get back. -
UNHCR publication for CIS Conference (Displacement in the CIS) - Transit migrants and trafficking
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UNHCR publication for CIS Conference (Displacement in the CIS) - Conflicts in the Caucasus
1 May 1996 The Caucasus has experienced five major conflicts, creating more than 2 million refugees and internally displaced people. While most of the conflicts are relatively quiescent, none of them appears close to finding a lasting solution. Hundreds of thousands continue to live in temporary shelter. -
UNHCR publication for CIS Conference (Displacement in the CIS) - About this publication
1 May 1996 The full name of this conference (held in Geneva on 30-31 May 1996) is "Regional Conference to Address the Problems of Refugees, Displaced Persons, Other Forms of Involuntary Displacement and Returnees in the Countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Relevant Neighbouring States." For the sake of brevity, it is referred to in these articles as the CIS Conference. -
UNHCR publication for CIS Conference (Displacement in the CIS) - Forced to move by war or circumstance
1 May 1996 The disintegration of the Soviet Union has given rise to the largest, most complex, involuntary movements of people since World War II. Some 9 million people have left their homes in CIS countries for a variety of reasons, several of them unique to the region.