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Refugees craft future in Central Asia
17 Aug 2006 Skills training is just one of many services offered to refugees and asylum seekers at two centres in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Other facilities include legal aid, talks on family planning and supplementary education - activities that have fostered an exchange between refugees and their hosts. -
Pakistan camp bids farewell to large convoy of Afghans
4 Aug 2006 More than 1,000 Afghan refugees have gone back home this week from Khaki camp in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province in one of the year's biggest organised return convoys. -
Skilled Afghans return home with hopes for a prosperous Afghanistan
11 Jul 2006 The number of Afghans returning home from Pakistan this year has crossed the 100,000 mark. It includes a large number of skilled and educated people bringing back their expertise to help rebuild Afghanistan. -
Young Afghans draw hope from refugee life
19 Jun 2006 More than 50 Afghan students from refugee camps in Pakistan have taken part in a drawing contest based on the theme, "My Hope for the Future." The top prizes will be presented at an official World Refugee Day ceremony on Tuesday. -
Canadian programme gives hope to Afghan refugees in Central Asia
14 Jun 2006 More than 2,700 Afghan refugees in Central Asia have been given a new lease on life in the last two years through the Canadian accelerated resettlement programme in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. -
Afghanistan, Pakistan and UNHCR agree to closure of three refugee camps
1 Jun 2006 At a meeting in Qatar of the tripartite commission on the voluntary repatriation of Afghan refugees, officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan and the UNHCR agreed on the closure of three refugee camps in Pakistan and decided to step up efforts to find solutions for the remaining 2.6 million Afghans in Pakistan. -
Afghan human rights survey shows hope in the face of hardship
1 May 2006 For the many millions of refugees who have returned home to Afghanistan, job opportunities, housing and access to safe drinking water - not security - rank top on their list of concerns according to a new survey published today. And despite the hardships and uncertainty, the vast majority of people are glad they came home. -
From one end of Afghanistan to another, refugee families share desire for home
24 Apr 2006 Now in its fifth year, UNHCR's repatriation programme for Afghanistan has so far assisted more than 3.5 million refugees return following the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. The families of Mohammed Afzal and Abdul Sattar, who have just come back from Pakistan and Iran respectively, are among more than half a million more Afghans expected to go home this year. -
Chamberlin completes Pakistan visit with registration deal for Afghans
21 Apr 2006 Deputy High Commissioner Wendy Chamberlin has ended her six-day visit to Pakistan after witnessing the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the government and UNHCR on the registration of Afghans in Pakistan, seen as a tool to help plan for the future of this population.