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UNHCR staff receives award for helping Colombia's forgotten people
17 Mar 2004 The bonds between UNHCR staff and those they help. -
UNHCR expands Afghan return programme in Pakistan
16 Mar 2004 The UN refugee agency has resumed its operations in southern Pakistan, enabling Afghan refugees to join some 7,000 of their countrymen who have already crossed back in the north in the first weeks of assisted repatriation this year. -
Twilight for remote Pakistan camp as refugees move out
9 Mar 2004 The UN refugee agency has started relocating refugees from Shalman camp under a programme to help all its residents return to Afghanistan or move to another refugee camp before the end of March. This is part of plans to consolidate and close camps as more refugees go back to Afghanistan. -
UNHCR opens Afghan repatriation season
3 Mar 2004 Small groups of Afghan refugees have left Pakistan for home, marking the start of assisted returns this year, when UNHCR expects some 400,000 refugees to return from Pakistan. -
UNHCR condemns murders of two leaders of displaced Colombians
10 Feb 2004 The UN refugee agency has strongly condemned the murders of two members of an association of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Colombia and urged authorities to investigate the crimes and prosecute those responsible. -
Feature: A school boat in a Venezuelan jungle
10 Feb 2004 The UN refugee agency is helping build a boat that will bring children of Colombian refugees and local residents to a school in a remote Venezuelan jungle that gets flooded during the six-month rainy season. It is one of the agency's 55 projects to help refugees and local communities hosting them in Venezuela. -
Birth certificate programme secures Afghans' identities
6 Feb 2004 The UN refugee agency has extended a programme to provide birth certificates to Afghan infants born in new camps in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province to help them establish their nationality and identities. -
Venezuela border projects bring fresh water, help children go to school
28 Jan 2004 Children in one community in Venezuela can go to school more easily, and people in two other areas now have drinking water - thanks to projects the UN refugee agency has inaugurated. The projects in border regions of Venezuela are part of UNHCR's efforts to help Venezuelans and Colombians who have fled violence in their homeland. -
Assistant High Commissioner expresses solidarity with Colombia's internally displaced
27 Jan 2004 UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner Kamel Morjane pledges the agency's continuing support for hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people in Colombia and urges the country's leadership to do all it can to restore their basic rights.