Since 2002, approximately 4 million Afghan refugees have returned, including about 2.7 million from Pakistan.

In 2005, more than 5,400 refugees returned to Rwanda, in addition to the almost 13,500 who returned in 2004.

2 Out of the total estimate of 1.3 million food insecure Palestinians, 560,000 are refugees and 750,000 non refugees.

A malnourished refugee during the Nigerian Civil War.

That's what most people think of the word refugee.

More than 18,000 refugees returned to Somalia in 2004 and some 7,000 have returned so far in 2005, mainly from Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya.

An illustration by a refugee living at Katsikas camp shows the details of his journey to Greece.

There are still more than 600,000 Burundian refugees in neighbouring countries.

You don't have to be a refugee, to defend the rights of refugees.

I am Palestinian Syrian. That means I am a refugee twice over.

There were seven of us to 1,200 refugees when we arrived, she recalls.

Assistance was currently being provided to 158,000 refugees.

The number of remaining refugees is estimated to be about 200,000.

Brazil has around 4,500 refugees from 75 countries with the biggest groups coming from Angola and Colombia.

Since then, more than 3.5 million Afghan refugees have already come home.

Refugee status is a humanitarian shelter.

A refugee at Katsikas camp takes a throw in in a game of football on a nearby field.

In Africa, more than a half a million refugees had returned home in 2005.

The Committee appreciates the announcement made by the State party that it will grant citizenship to about 16,000 refugees who have been residing in Turkmenistan for some years, and permanent resident status to 3,000 other refugees (art.

There are now an estimated 600,000 to one million internal refugees.

This support persists despite the terrible humanitarian cost more than 1.5 million internal refugees.

Some 125,000 former East Timorese refugees elected to be and were registered as Indonesian citizens.

Lebanon is now home to about one million Syrian refugees or around a quarter of its own population.

Over three million refugees have repatriated voluntarily.

The hostilities resulted in hundreds of casualties from both sides and an additional 20,000 Georgian refugees.

There are roughly 111,000 refugees housed in nine camps along the Thai Myanmar border.

There are now more than two million Syrian refugees in bordering countries and more than four million displaced persons inside Syria.

I can stay here, but not as a refugee , he recalls being told.

According to UNHCR, nearly 150,000 registered Syrian refugees reside in Irbid city making it one of the largest host cities in Jordan.

It was hoped that 35,000 would return by the end of the year.

UNHCR also provides international protection and assistance to some 17,000 refugees, 7,500 of whom are camp based Congolese refugees, including the survivors of the August 2004 Gatumba massacre, who were transferred to Gasorwe and Gihinga refugee camps.

In the ensuing chaos, more than 50,000 refugees died from cholera.

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More than 300,000 Angolan refugees have returned home since the signing of the peace accord in 2002.

There are currently approximately 50,000 Liberian refugees living in eight camps in the eastern part of Sierra Leone.

In 1996, before Rwanda had reached an appropriate level of stability, around 500,000 refugees were returned to Rwanda from Zaire.

The ensuing 1991 Gulf War produced nearly three million refugees, many of them from Iraq.

The largest number of returns last year occurred in Afghanistan with more than 940,000 refugees alone returning home.

UNHCR continues to provide protection to 12,700 refugees from Côte d'Ivoire living mostly with host communities in the eastern part of Liberia and is trying to facilitate the local integration of the 2,800 Sierra Leonean refugees who chose not to return.

For them, as for some 50,000 other refugees stuck across Greece, there is still no end in sight.

Before and during World War II, 800 Jewish refugees moved to the Dominican Republic.

In November, it was reported that the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey stood at 7,600.

In 1995, he went to Great Britain, where he was recognized as a refugee and became a barrister.

Zambia itself currently hosted some 200,000 refugees and was actively involved in the voluntary repatriation of refugees from Angola and Rwanda.

(d) The generous approach taken by the Government of Uganda in hosting more than 200,000 refugees and in fully respecting the principle of non refoulement