Premised on the assumption that gender roles and relations shape the process of empowerment, this guide provides practical examples of empowerment from case studies in Kosovo, Tanzania, Guatemala, Colombia, Guinea, Turkey and Algeria.

Five dimensions of women's empowerment are considered; access, conscientization, mobilization, control and gender equality mainstreaming.

Collectively, the Good Practices advanced aim to provide important lessons learned for current and future UNHCR initiatives with refugee, internally displaced and returnee populations that seek to

GENEVA - The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has carried out a stringent prioritisation exercise and review of posts aimed at refocusing its core activities, bringing down spending and ultimately improving the agency's funding.
The best estimates for 2002 now show a budgetary target of $825 million, which is equivalent to the projected income for the year. Compared with this year's (2001) initial budget of $954.9 million, it represents a reduction of $130 million, or about 14 percent.

"What we have done is painful but

UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES EVALUATION AND POLICY ANALYSIS UNIT
Report of a regional
lessons-learned workshop,
Monrovia, Liberia,
26-27 April 2001

By Jeff Crisp
EPAU/2001/06 May 2001

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
1. Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia/Fed. Rep. of Yugoslavia

Up to 2,000 people have fled to southern Serbia from villages in the north of the Former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, as fighting intensified between Macedonian forces and ethnic Albanian rebels. UNHCR staff monitoring the border crossing between the Macedonian village of Lojane and the southern Serbia town of Miratovac said the outflow started

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1,500 refugees, in exile for decades, set to return to welcome celebration on Sunday; 4,400 "new caseload" have returned to date

Since 12 May, over 4,400 Eritrean refugees, in Sudan for exactly one year, have crossed back into Eritrea in four convoys. The Eritrean Relief and Refugee Commission (ERREC) and UNHCR are now gearing up to welcome home the first convoy of « old caseload » refugees, that is, Eritreans who have been in exile since the late '60s.

«These people here - they're not the

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
1. Pakistan

Heat and poor sanitary conditions continue to exact a heavy toll on the Afghans at the squalid Jalozai site, near Peshawar in North West Pakistan. An estimated 70,000 Afghans, who fled the conflict and drought in their country, have been camping out in Jalozai since mid-January. In the past two weeks, as summer temperatures soared above 45 degrees Celsius, more than 25 children have died of heatstroke

GENEVA - UNHCR is deeply disturbed by Guinea's continued closure of its southern border with Liberia and its refusal to allow Liberian asylum seekers into the country.
This morning, UNHCR's Representative in Guinea met with senior officials in the country's Ministry of Interior to express the agency's growing concern over Guinea's failure to meet its international obligations under the 1951 Geneva Convention.

A UNHCR team which travelled to the southern border towns of Yomou and Macenta over the weekend were told by villagers

ERITREA
Asmara, 15 May 2001

934 Eritrean refugees returned Saturday in the first convoy from Sudan, another 1,005 arrived this morning

Nairobi, May 2001
The exodus

UNHCR has been caring for Eritrean refugees in Sudan longer than for any other large group of exiles, with the first camp for present-day Eritreans opened by the agency in eastern Sudan in 1967.

Refugees began arriving in Sudan in the mid-1960s, after Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie annexed the territory in 1962 and people fled the first hostilities in the war of independence. The conflict and periods of drought would drive progressively larger numbers of civilians into neighboring Sudan, with the exodus marked by years when