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Afghanistan (L), Pakistan and UNHCR extend agreement

UN agreement on Afghan returnees from Pakistan extended for three more years

3 August 2007
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has extended by another three years its agreement with Pakistan and Afghanistan that has already regulated the voluntary repatriation of more than 3 million Afghans to their homeland since the fall of the Taliban.
Judy Cheng-Hopkins

Intensive work needed to reintegrate returning Afghan refugees, UN agency warns

1 August 2007
The international donor and humanitarian community must work even more intensively to ensure that Afghan refugees returning home are able to resume a normal life, with the lack of land, shelter and jobs posing a very long-term challenge for which there are no quick fixes, the United Nations refugee agency has warned.