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Refugees Magazine Issue 106 (Focus : 1996 in review) - "Too long away from home"
1 Dec 1996 -
Refugees Magazine Issue 106 (Focus : 1996 in review) - Rwanda: Finding a way home
1 Dec 1996 Over five days in November more than 500,000 refugees streamed back through the border crossings they had used to leave Rwanda in 1994. Back in their country, the returnees seem relieved their exile is over. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 106 (Focus : 1996 in review) - M'Berra: A victim of its success
1 Dec 1996 M'Berra camp in Mauritania is emptying fast. Thousands of Malian refugees fled the violence and repression in the north of the country in the early 1990s. But now that peace has returned, the refugees are heading back to Mali. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 106 (Focus : 1996 in review) - Afghanistan: A sense of foreboding
1 Dec 1996 Following the Taliban Islamic militia take over of Kabul on 27 September, life has improved in a city used to bombardments and intense criminal activity. But all this has occurred at a high cost. The human rights of Kabulis, never accorded great respect, continue to be violated. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 106 (Focus : 1996 in review) - Assistance to internally displaced persons from Chechnya
1 Dec 1996 As a result of the fighting in Chechnya, it is estimated that some 400,000 persons have had to leave the country for locations throughout the Russian Federation. Many of these persons have been displaced several times during the 20 months of conflict. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 106 (Focus : 1996 in review) - Managing refugees and migrants in the CIS: Nine million on the move
1 Dec 1996 Since the early 1990s, unprecedented population movements in the territory of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have led to a total of nine million uprooted people. The CIS Conference provided a multilateral forum to tackle population displacement issues. It was a "first" in many respects. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 106 (Focus : 1996 in review) - More turmoil in northern Iraq
1 Dec 1996 September was a tumultuous month in northern Iraq. Dramatic events heightened international tensions and brought the situation in northern Iraq squarely back on to the international agenda. Renewed fighting forced some 65,000 people to seek refuge in Iran. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 106 (Focus : 1996 in review) - The way of life in Peacetown
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Refugees Magazine Issue 106 (Focus : 1996 in review) - Leaving Hong Kong
1 Dec 1996 UNHCR's work with the Vietnamese boat people still remaining in Hong Kong has been changing and evolving as the implementation of the Comprehensive Plan of Action has progressed. The closure of the CPA this year has marked the end of one of UNHCR's most impressive programmes of solution.