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Elderly refugees struggle to integrate in Slovenia
17 Jan 2008 Elderly refugees pose a major integration challenge for UNHCR and governments around Europe. -
UNHCR concerned about provisions in Slovenia's new asylum law
7 Jan 2008 UNHCR expresses concern about Slovenia's new asylum law and says many of its recommendations to improve the draft were ignored. -
UNHCR urges Slovenia to resolve the problem of its "erased cases"
26 Feb 2007 Today is a black one for almost 4,000 people in Slovenia. Exactly 15 years ago, they were deprived of their legal residency status and the benefits that came with it, including facilitated access to nationality, housing, employment, health insurance, pensions and access to higher education. Many of them are stateless and UNHCR is pushing for the problem to be resolved. -
Slovenian authorities turned legal resident into asylum seeker
16 Jan 2007 Alija Berisha is puzzled and angry. After living and working in Slovenia for years, he discovered in 1995 that he was no longer welcome in the country that had once formed part of the Yugoslav federation with his native Kosovo. UNHCR has been pushing for his case, and those of other stateless people, to be resolved. -
Gambian border villages flooded with refugees from Senegal
23 Aug 2006 Amid reports of a fresh offensive by the Senegalese armed forces against separatists in the country's Casamance region, thousands of people have sought shelter in neighbouring Gambia. -
Football brings refugees and host societies closer
7 Jul 2006 Moves by Slovenia to deport four asylum-seeking Gambian football players have caused a public uproar. The case is one example of how football can help bridge the gap between refugees and asylum seekers and their host societies. -
Up to 2,000 flee fighting in Senegal
10 May 2002 Temporarily settled in two border towns in southern Gambia, they are adopting a wait-and-see attitude and are reluctant to move into a refugee camp further inland.