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UNHCR and Sheraton Hotel in Tajikistan offer Afghan refugees chance to shine
25 Oct 2017 A pioneering partnership between UNHCR and the Sheraton Hotel is helping refugees to learn job skills. -
UNHCR and Tajikistan agree on integration of refugees
2 Apr 2008 UNHCR and Tajikistan agreed to strengthen cooperation and open the door for the integration of some 1,000 Afghan refugees. -
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. -
UNHCR deplores forced return of Afghan refugee family from Tajikistan
16 Sep 2005 The UN refugee agency on Friday criticized the government of Tajikistan's deportation of an Afghan refugee family earlier this week, saying it was a clear violation of two international legal conventions, as well as Tajikistan's own national laws. -
Over 10,000 Tajik refugees to become citizens in Turkmenistan
10 Aug 2005 After up to 13 years as refugees on Turkmen soil, more than 10,000 ethnic-Turkmen refugees from Tajikistan will finally be able to call Turkmenistan home after last week's presidential decree to grant them citizenship. -
Feature: UNHCR helps women to heal the wounds of war in Tajikistan
16 Jun 2004 Returning after years in exile, the women are learning to provide for themselves and their children, thanks to reintegration assistance in the form of skills training and micro-credit schemes that help them to bake, tailor and grow vegetables to sell in the local market. -
UNHCR updates information on refugees in Tajikistan
23 Feb 2004 The Tajik authorities and UNHCR have begun a joint information gathering initiative that will help the refugee agency hone its assistance and protection efforts and provide clear statistics on the number of refugees and asylum seekers in the country following several years of returns to Afghanistan. -
UN refugee agency salutes Kyrgyz hospitality
1 Sep 2003 Kyrgyzstan marks the third anniversary of its landmark citizenship decree by granting nationality to 50 refugees in a ceremony attended by the UN refugee agency's regional chief of operations, bringing to more than 3,500 the number of Tajik refugees granted citizenship. -
"The world begins in your own home"
9 Apr 2003 A Somali student who fled Tajikistan when the tanks rolled in is now a well-established politician in Finland.