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Water for Peace in Osh Province
06.04.2015
Shortage of irrigation water becomes a subject of disputes and conflicts between communities as the access to sufficient amounts of irrigation water is crucial for most farmers in southern Kyrgyzstan.
Sharing lessons to eliminate statelessness in Central Asia
01.04.2015
A joint delegation of UNHCR Tajikistan and NGOs undertook a study tour to Kyrgyzstan to share experiences in preventing and reducing statelessness.
Asylum applications in industrialized world soar to almost 900,000 in 2014
27.03.2015
The wars in Syria and Iraq, armed conflicts, human rights violations and deteriorating security and humanitarian conditions in other countries, pushed the number of asylum applications in industrialized countries to a 22-year high last year.
Recommendations on statelessness encourage legislative reforms in Kyrgyzstan
25.03.2015
The Inter-Agency Working Group adopted a set of recommendations on desirable legislative amendments aimed at prevention and reduction of statelessness and improving citizenship legislation.
Training course expands knowledge of UNHCR partners in the field of humanitarian response
20.03.2015
The workshop “Basics of International Humanitarian Response” was aimed at training partners to respond to humanitarian emergencies.
Presentation of handbook for Parliamentarians calls for changing lives of stateless persons
26.02.2015
UNHCR presented the second edition of the publication “Nationality and Statelessness”, jointly published by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UNHCR to members of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Dialogue leads to trust between people and authorities in Osh
24.02.2015
Residents of Alymbek Datka were observing a construction of houses with violation of the norms. They did not agree with the decree of the local mayors' office for construction of a new building, but possible conflict was solved due to dialogue.
Empowering Sustainability of Refugee Families
10.02.2015
UNHCR resumed its mini-grants program aimed at assisting and encouraging family self-sustainability within refugee households.
UNHCR aims at ending statelessness worldwide by end-2024
30.01.2015
Today UNHCR underlined this goal during the briefing for the media, aimed at exploring the statelessness phenomenon in the region and Kazakhstan.
New Year is coming to refugee children
30.12.2014
Mariyam , a 14-year old refugee girl from Afghanistan along with other 80 refugee children, residing in Kazakhstan, was looking forward and put much time and efforts preparing for the New Year celebration.
