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Viet Nam sets the pace for Asia with new law to prevent statelessness
1 Jul 2009 Under new legislation, Viet Nam will keep its tens of thousands of "economic brides" from risking the loss of citizenship when they marry foreign men. -
Refugee women crochet up sweaters, self-esteem and camaraderie
2 Jun 2009 A low-cost UNHCR project in Phnom Penh encourages women refugees and asylum seekers to pass on skills to each other that can help improve their lives back home. -
Cambodia on track to become refugee model for Southeast Asia
20 Oct 2008 The opening of a Cambodian Refugee Office is symbolic of the country's determination to take on new responsibilities in protecting refugees' rights. -
Q&A: Former Cambodian refugee chronicles Iraqi displacement
29 Aug 2008 A former refugee from Cambodia, Kalyanee Mam tells how she raises awareness of refugee issues through her work as a lawyer, photographer and documentary maker. -
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. -
Divorce leaves some Vietnamese women broken-hearted and stateless
14 Feb 2007 After marrying foreign men in a bid to escape poverty, thousands of Vietnamese women have found they lost not only their dreams, but their citizenship, when the marriages broke up. UNHCR is working with the government of Viet Nam to try to restore their rights. -
Vietnamese local governments smooth the way for stateless Cambodians
8 Nov 2006 The Vietnamese government has never granted citizenship to some 9,500 former Cambodian refugees living in the country since 1975, but at authorities at the local level do their best to extend equal rights to this forgotten group. -
Stateless former Cambodians caught in Kafkaesque web in Viet Nam
30 Oct 2006 The UN refugee agency is working with the Vietnamese government to try to get citizenship for some 9,500 former Cambodian refugees who were left stateless when their country refused to take them back. Now in Viet Nam with no legal rights for more than three decades, they only want to be what they already feel they are - Vietnamese citizens. -
Small sums go a long way to improve lives in Viet Nam's Central Highlands
21 Sep 2006 In the remote villages of Viet Nam's Central Highlands, small-scale projects developed by the UN refugee agency are offering medical care and better education to minority Montagnard hill tribe people as well as majority Vietnamese.