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Bringing health care to the people in Colombia's conflict zone
18 Nov 2003 A team of doctors from Landázuri, north of Bogota, recently visited the isolated locality of San Pedro with medical assistance and supplies, bringing relief to a community at risk of displacement where 70 percent of the people have no access to basic health care. -
Training helps Venezuela's journalists push back frontiers on refugee issues
13 Nov 2003 More than 70 journalists working on the Venezuela-Colombia border have just completed a six-month training programme to promote understanding and accurate coverage of refugee and asylum issues. They have also created a network to share information and organise future training. -
Refugees join in Afghanistan's political rebuilding
5 Nov 2003 Afghan refugee leaders in Pakistan have started voting for delegates to represent them in the Loya Jirga, or Grand Council of Afghan elders, which will decide on a new constitution for Afghanistan. -
Afghans thread their way through exile with new skills
3 Nov 2003 A vocational training programme run by Rotary International Pakistan has trained hundreds of Afghan refugees in carpet weaving, embroidery, tailoring, welding and motorcycle repairs - skills that will help them earn a living in exile and at home. -
Feature: Newly-weds embrace new prospects in Afghanistan
21 Oct 2003 Razia and Hussain Ali reflect the growing confidence in Afghanistan's future. They are returning to a homeland Razia has never known, where she plans to continue her studies while he resumes work with the government in Kabul. -
Iris testing of returning Afghans passes 200,000 mark
10 Oct 2003 More than 200,000 Afghans returning from Pakistan have undergone iris testing as UNHCR works to ensure its repatriation assistance reaches those most in need. Meanwhile, the agency has moved its first convoy of displaced Afghans from Kandahar back to their home villages in Badghis province. -
Colombia must do more to help IDPs in capital, says new study
9 Oct 2003 A new study co-published by the UN refugee agency has found that despite skyrocketing numbers of internally displaced persons in Bogota, these people - especially indigenous communities - lack assistance to integrate in the capital. -
Pakistani university to start refugee law course with UNHCR help
8 Oct 2003 Starting next year, the UN refugee agency and Pakistan's Allama Iqbal Open University will offer a three-month course on refugee law to university students in major Pakistani cities and six Gulf states. -
Feature: Afghan refugees who are reluctant to return
6 Oct 2003 Unswayed by their returning countrymen, tens of thousands of Afghan refugees in Pakistan's remote Dalbandin area are in no rush to go home. After some 25 years in exile, they have integrated with the local population and do not want to repatriate until they are sure their lives and dignity are safe in Afghanistan.