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Afghan Conference: Reports of stability key to refugee’s return decision
Abdol Ali Din Mohammad returned home last week after 13 years as a refugee in Iran. The Afghan talks about the future and his life as a refugee.
Afghan Conference: After years in exile, returnee reflects on starting over
After 28 years as a refugee in Pakistan, Fida Mohammad decided to return home. Life was difficult, but slowly he settled in and conditions improved.
South Kordofan refugees look back in worry
They found safety in South Sudan’s capital, but are losing sleep wondering if their loved ones are dead or alive back home in the Nuba Mountains.
Q&A: Afghan Conference: Returning refugee is sustained by faith in the future
Ahead of a conference on Afghanistan in Geneva, one returnee talks about his hopes for the future after living for 18 years as a refugee in Pakistan.
Somali refugees in Ethiopia’s Dollo Ado exceed 150,000 as rains hit camps
New arrivals cite insecurity inside Somalia as their reason for flight. Some say they fled in fear of possible forced recruitment or military conscription.
Thriving after a crisis: Security and refugee empowerment in Dadaab
UNHCR, its partners and the refugee community adapt to a new reality in the world’s biggest refugee camp in Kenya.
Myanmar: UNHCR training propels young mechanic with drive to succeed
More motorbikes on roads of a remote, dusty town in western Myanmar – and training provided by UNHCR – spell business success for one daring young man.
Q&A: Confidence building programme helps Sahrawi families reconnect
At the heart of the programme are weekly flights that briefly reunite Sahrawi refugees living in windswept, isolated camps in Algeria’s Tindouf region.
Vulnerable Afghan women flown to Slovakia en route to resettlement
A group of vulnerable single Afghan women and their dependents are flown from Iran to evacuation transit centre in Slovakia ahead of resettlement.
Donors pledge more than 300 million euros to help refugees in Balkans
A new programme will provide homes for some 74,000 people displaced in the Balkans during the conflict of the 1990s. The EU pledged 230 million euros.
UNHCR paper urges Hungary to improve treatment of asylum seekers
UNHCR is today releasing a position paper on the protection environment for refugees and asylum-seekers in Hungary, in response to requests from governments in other European Union states who face legal…
35,000 newly displaced near Sudan-South Sudan border
The recent fighting near the border between Sudan and South Sudan has displaced some 35,000 people in areas around Heglig, Talodi and other parts of South Kordofan, according to our partners there. UNHCR…
Bulgaria, Moldova accede to Statelessness Conventions
Bulgaria and Moldova have become the latest states to accede to the international conventions on statelessness.
The Republic of Moldova formally deposited its instruments of accession to the 1954 Convention…
