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27 Feb 2012

Iran (Islamic Republic of) + 1 other
Mehdi, "My hands were hurting because the handcuffs were too tight"

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— IRIN

ISLAM QALA, 27 February 2012 (IRIN) - In an attempt to find long-term solutions for the estimated 1.4 million unregistered Afghans living within its borders, Iran adopted a legalization scheme last year that paved the way for Afghans to enter Iran legally with work visas.

Observers say few Afghans have taken advantage of the new programme, and instead Afghan migrants continue streaming into Iran illegally every day in search of jobs. And every day, hundreds - including unaccompanied minors - are sent back to Afghanistan.

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01 Mar 2007

Iran (Islamic Republic of) + 6 others
Iraq/Jordan: New rules a 'death sentence' for Iraqis

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— IRIN
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AMMAN, 1 March 2007 (IRIN) - Iraqis fleeing their country's sectarian violence are finding it much harder to get into Jordan and Syria, after the authorities in these countries recently began implementing much stricter border controls.

Jordan and Syria have been the only of Iraq's neighbours to open their doors to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis on the move. The United Nations Refugee Agency estimates that there are up to 700,000 Iraqi refugees in Jordan and from 500,000 to one million in Syria.

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27 Apr 2006

Iran (Islamic Republic of) + 1 other
Iran: Afghan repatriation resumes

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— IRIN
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ANKARA, 27 Apr 2006 (IRIN) - The Iranian government predicts that half a million Afghan refugees will return to their homeland from Iran when the country's voluntary repatriation operation resumes on 29 April, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Iran said on Wednesday.

"Following the government of Iran's wish, 500,000 refugees are anticipated to voluntarily return. Our [UNHCR] own internal planning figures on assistance of refugees are 150,000. That's

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04 Apr 2006

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran: Concern over quake-affected children in Lorestan

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— IRIN
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Ankara, 4 April (IRIN) - There is growing concern over the welfare of tens of thousands of children affected by a series of quakes in western Iran last week, which killed at least 66 people and injured over 1,000 more.

"Preliminary indications suggest that 36,000 school-age children were affected in the two districts of Douroud and Boroujerd," Country Representative for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Christian Salazar Volkmann, told IRIN on Tuesday from the

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31 Mar 2006

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran: Relief teams work to reach quake survivors

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— IRIN
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ANKARA, 31 March (IRIN) - Relief efforts are under way after a series of earthquakes on Thursday night struck Iran's western Lorestan province, killing at least 50 people and injuring more than 850. The quakes, measuring up to 6 on the Richter scale, occurred between the industrial towns of Doroud and Boroujerd.

"The relief effort is ongoing and Iranian Red Crescent teams are on the ground," Mansooreh Bagheri, programme coordinator for international cooperation for the Iranian Red

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02 Mar 2006

Iran (Islamic Republic of) + 1 other
Iran: UNHCR to assist 150,000 Afghan returnees in 2006

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— IRIN
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Ankara, 2 March (IRIN) - The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says that based on last year's returns it is budgeting to assist an estimated 150,000 Afghan refugees to voluntarily return to their homeland this year from Iran, host to one of the largest refugee populations in the world. UNHCR Iran adds that should the number of voluntary returns increase, it will adjust its programmes accordingly.

"The main challenge is to be able

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13 Jan 2006

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran: Year in Review 2005

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— IRIN
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TEHRAN, 13 Jan 2006 (IRIN) - During 2005, Iran was on a rollercoaster ride of earthquakes, disasters, major political reshuffles and high-profile human rights cases. And all of this overshadowed by an escalating nuclear crisis and a new Islamic fundamentalist president.

Winning 62 percent of the vote in a second round presidential run-off poll, the victory of ultra-conservative former Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June presidential elections marked

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03 Jan 2006

Iran (Islamic Republic of) + 2 others
Iran-Pakistan: Refugee returns in 2005 top half a million

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— IRIN
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KABUL, 3 January (IRIN) - Last year saw a significant number of returns to post-conflict Afghanistan, with more than half a million Afghans repatriated, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Monday in the capital, Kabul.

During 2005, a total of 520,100 Afghans returned home with UNHCR assistance, the majority, 453,000, came from Pakistan, according to the refugee agency.

"This figure represents a significant

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26 Dec 2005

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran: Reconstruction efforts in quake-devastated Bam continue two years on

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— IRIN
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ANKARA, 26 December (IRIN) - Reconstruction efforts in Iran's southeastern city of Bam were continuing on Monday, following the successful construction of thousands of permanent shelters for survivors of the devastating earthquake that levelled the city exactly two years ago.

"The Bam reconstruction programme has the potential to become a successful recovery programme, in that it not only has enhanced standards of earthquake safety in Bam but safety

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28 Nov 2005

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran: UNICEF ready to assist Qeshm quake victims

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— IRIN
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ANKARA, 28 November (IRIN) - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is ready to provide assistance after a moderate-sized earthquake struck the Persian Gulf island of Qeshm in southern Iran over the weekend.

"We are preparing to respond if needed, pending a request by the government and further assessments," Jan Kleiburg, UNICEF officer-in-charge, said from the Iranian capital Tehran on Monday. "In terms of basic survival needs, it seemed the Iranian

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27 Oct 2005

Iran (Islamic Republic of) + 1 other
Iran: Japan donates US $1.5 million to UNHCR

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— IRIN
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TEHRAN, 27 October (IRIN) - The Japanese government has donated US $1.5 million to the office of the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Iran to help Afghan refugees.

The donation comes at a time when there has been a steady decline in donor contributions to UNHCR's Afghan repatriation programme, coupled with a cutback in UNHCR'S country budget for Iran.

"The reason the Japanese went for a generous contribution is that they see the lack of assistance to Iran,"

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09 Aug 2005

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran: Interview with Human Rights Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Miloon Kothari

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— IRIN
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TEHRAN, 9 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - Access to adequate housing in Iran is fraught with difficulties. Iran is riddled with earthquake fault lines and prone to severe droughts. The burgeoning population, coupled with massive population migration from rural to urban areas has resulted in a surge in demand for housing.

The UN Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Miloon Kothari, recently spent 12 days travelling through several Iranian provinces gathering information for a report.

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09 Jun 2005

Iran (Islamic Republic of) + 1 other
Iran: New tripartite agreement on repatriation of Afghans agreed in principle

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— IRIN
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TEHRAN, 9 Jun 2005 (IRIN) - A new tripartite agreement between Iran, Afghanistan and the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been agreed in principle. The agreement has yet to be signed by Iran, the UNHCR's newly appointed Representative in Tehran, Sten Bronee, told IRIN in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Thursday.

UNHCR, Afghanistan and Iran's Bureau of Aliens and Foreign Immigrants Affairs (BAFIA) negotiated changes to

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28 Feb 2005

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran: Quake death toll passes 600

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— IRIN
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ANKARA, 28 February (IRIN) - More than 600 people are now known to have been killed in last week's devastating earthquake in Iran's southeastern Kerman province, an official from the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) told IRIN on Monday.

"Based on our latest figures from the field, the death toll now stands at 612, with 1,411 people reported injured," Mehrdad Eshragi, deputy director-general of the international affairs department at the IRCS, said from the Iranian capital, Tehran.

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24 Feb 2005

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran: Focus on relief in aftermath of Kerman quake

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— IRIN
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HOUTKAN, 24 February (IRIN) - The earthquake that struck Iran's southeastern Kerman province early on Tuesday turned the mountain village of Houtkan into mud, killed many of its inhabitants and reduced the survivors to homelessness and destitution. The village was almost totally destroyed and, because it is so isolated, help has been slow to reach the stricken community.

On Thursday, the weather was very cold and a heavy mist hung over Houtkan, lending an already nightmarish scene

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23 Feb 2005

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran: Relief efforts under way in quake-hit Kerman

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— IRIN
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ANKARA, 23 February (IRIN) - Efforts to provide assistance to quake-hit villages in Iran's southeastern Kerman province are now under way, according to officials.

"We dispatched three cargo aircraft to the region with food and [other]relief items," Mehrdad Eshragi, deputy director-general of the international affairs department at the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), told IRIN from the capital, Tehran, on Wednesday.

"The immediate needs of the survivors

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22 Feb 2005

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran: Hundreds feared dead in quake

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— IRIN
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ANKARA, 22 February (IRIN) - Hundreds of people have been reported dead and up to 1,000 injured after a powerful earthquake struck the southeast Iranian province of Kerman on Tuesday.

"There were no standing buildings, no structures that would give any shelter to any people - survivors of this earthquake," Kari Egge, a representative of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Iran, told IRIN following her visit to Douhan, a village she described as the quake's epicentre.

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04 Jan 2005

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran: Special report on Bam - one year after the devastating earthquake

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— IRIN
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BAM, 4 January (IRIN) - A year after an earthquake that killed at least 30,000 people in just seconds, and on the surface not much has changed. The mangled remains of a lost city are strewn across this once-fertile desert oasis. Debris, rubble and twisted metal girders are still piled high on every street and down every alley, almost untouched since the earthquake struck on 26 December 2003. Around them are date trees and a few half collapsed buildings stubbornly standing, precariously lopsided.
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11 Nov 2004

Iran (Islamic Republic of) + 1 other
Iraq: Focus on returnees from Iran in the South

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— IRIN
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BASRA, 11 November (IRIN) - After living in Iran for almost 13 years in a refugee camp, the family of Mohsen Dighbash thought that coming back to their home region of Basra in southern Iraq would be much better.

"Living in Iran was tough as a refugee but we knew that going back to Iraq after the fall of the regime would not be easy, especially with the current deteriorating security situation. We thought there would be better work opportunities," Mohsen, told

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02 Sep 2004

Iran (Islamic Republic of) + 1 other
Iran: Interview with UNHCR head to mark the return of one million Afghans refugees

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— IRIN
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TEHRAN, 2 September (IRIN) - One million Afghan refugees have officially returned home from Iran since the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) started its voluntary repatriation programme in April 2002. This means that the Afghan refugee population in Iran has been halved, with a million Afghans remaining in Iran.

Despite continuing instability in parts of Afghanistan, Afghans have not been deterred from repatriating and in

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