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After generations away, Kazakhs come home to an independent country
9 Aug 2007 Some 600,000 ethnic Kazakhs have returned to Kazakhstan since independence, many after generations of life in other countries -
Vietnamese refugees well settled in China, await citizenship
10 May 2007 One of the most successful local integration programmes in the world has seen some 300,000 former Vietnamese nationals build new lives in China. Ethnically Chinese, these refugees now want formal citizenship in their adopted homeland. -
Helping Chechens back on their feet in Kazakhstan
16 Aug 2006 In Kazakhstan, people who fled conflict in the Russian republic of Chechnya are not admitted to the asylum system. The UN refugee agency is helping some 5,000 of them by providing grants and legal aid to improve their lives in exile. -
UNHCR welcomes Kazakhstan's release of Uzbek activist
12 Jul 2005 The Kazakh authorities today released Lutfullo Shamsuddinov, a prominent Uzbek human rights activist, to UNHCR protection. Uzbekistan was calling for the extradition of the recognised refugee, who is now on his way to resettlement in a third country. -
UNHCR opens office in Kazakh capital
31 Mar 2004 The new office in Astana will help the UN refugee agency build more partnerships with governmental and non-governmental organisations to care for some 16,000 refugees and asylum seekers in the Central Asian country. -
UNHCR urges Nepal not to send Tibetan detainees back to China
30 May 2003 The UN refugee agency believes that a group of 18 Tibetans detained in Nepal since April 17 may fall under UNHCR's mandate. It has appealed to the Nepalese authorities not to send the Tibetans back to China before their claims and status have been determined. -
UNHCR seeks access to North Koreans detained in China
21 Jan 2003 Officials from the UN refugee agency have asked China for access to 48 North Koreans arrested while trying to leave the country by boat last Saturday, urging Beijing not to send them back to their country. -
North Korean family spends second day at UNHCR office
27 Jun 2001 A family of seven North Koreans including three women sought asylum at the UNHCR office in Beijing Tuesday.