On the 21 and 22 August, 2013, WFP with support from UNHCR launched the cash-transfers mixed with food distribution in Sag-nioniogo camp. This new way of distributing food and cash results from a cash feasibility study undertaken jointly by UNHCR and WFP during the Food Assessment done in April 2...

<a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B58yvFfu0b7ganRfZ09udkNKSDQ/edit"><font color="#FF3333">Revue de presse speciale sur l'apatridie </font></a> <br /> Journée marathon hier pour les députés de la Commission des relations extérieures. Convoquées à 10 h, pour se plancher sur le projet de loi a...

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RANGOON — About 500 farmers from across Burma gathered at a two-day event in Rangoon this week to call on the government to address the worsening land confiscation issue and to return farmland that was seized under the previous military regime. Desperate farmers addressed the Voice of the Farmer ...

From the 20 to 22 of August, a workshop was organized for the newly elected refugee committees of Goudoubo by UNHCR and IEDA-Relief in order to continue their capacity-building and ensure an effective community based management of camps. The training included principles of coordination and admin...

On the 19 August 2013, UNHCR and the Government of Burkina Faso represented by the CONAREF (Commission Nationale Pour les Réfugiés), in collaboration with several implementing partners, launched the Biometric Registration Level III of Refugees residing in Burkina Faso at the Refugee Community Center...

CHIANG MAI, Thailand — On May 22, representatives of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), accompanied by a team of researchers and students from Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University, traveled to the remote northern Thai village of Ban Mae Sam Leap in Mae Hong Son Province to meet w...

RANGOON — A discussion about military land confiscations was halted on Thursday in Burma’s Parliament, after a representative from the army interrupted the proceedings and urged other lawmakers to move onto another topic. Brig-Gen Kyaw Oo Lwin, who was appointed to the legislature and not elected...

On the 16 August, 2013, UNHCR, with the participation of CONAREF, the NGO HELP-Germany, OCADES and the Direction Régionale de l’Environement et du Développement Durable, launched the beginning of a re-forestation exercise in order to improve the environment of the host population that have so warmly...

In conformity with the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the UNHCR and the Burkina Faso Government through the CONAREF (Commission Nationale pour les Réfugiés) early 2013 on the Civilian and Humanitarian Character of Asylum, UNHCR trained the security personnel that are stationed in t...