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.

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

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.

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

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

A malnourished refugee during the Nigerian Civil War.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Pakistan is home to most remaining Afghan refugees, perhaps as many as 1.9 million.

Refugee status is a humanitarian shelter.

Kinan, a Syrian refugee, prepares a meal for the Jellinek family's Sabbath dinner in Berlin.

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.

In all, UNHCR made RSD decisions affecting some 50,000 people in 2004.

Since the resumption of the programme at the end of the rainy season, more than 8,000 refugees had returned.

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

During 2004 almost 30,000 refugees were resettled under UNHCR auspices.

Despite the UNHCR target of facilitating the voluntary repatriation of 35,000 Eritrean refugees, less than 10,000 refugees actually repatriated in 2004.

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

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

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.

Efforts were also under way to revive the Tripartite Commission on voluntary repatriation of refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Since January 2005, some 5,600 Liberian refugees have been voluntarily repatriated.

However, some 48,000 refugees remain in camps in Kenema and Bo.

During 2004, an estimated 1.5 million refugees repatriated voluntarily to their countries of origin.

Pakistan continues to look forward to the voluntary return, in safety and honour, of the 3 million Afghan refugees whom we still host.

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.