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A woman collects vegetable oil and packages of high energy biscuits at a WFP distribution point

UN agency invested nearly $6 million this year to aid Kyrgyzstan’s most vulnerable

29 December 2010
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) spent nearly $6 million this year in Kyrgyzstan, where it is assisting 240,000 conflict-affected people in the south and 380,000 other vulnerable people in six out of seven of the country’s provinces.
One of the new homes in southern Kyrgyzstan takes shape

UN completes shelter project for Kyrgyz left homeless by ethnic violence

3 December 2010
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today announced the completion of its emergency shelter programme in southern Kyrgyzstan, which provides temporary housing for over 13,400 people whose homes were damaged or destroyed during ethnic clashes in June.
The Bishkek White House, seat of the Kyrgyzstan government, president and parliament.

Ban congratulates Kyrgyzstan on results of ‘positive’ parliamentary elections

1 November 2010
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon congratulated the people of Kyrgyzstan on the results of the 10 October parliamentary elections, which were released today and were assessed by observers as positive, transparent, and well organized.
Refugees swarm the border with Uzbekistan on their way home to villages in Kyrgyzstan's south

Four months after Kyrgyzstan violence, UN refugee agency reports strides

8 October 2010
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today that good progress has been made to help the displaced and returnees four months after violence rocked southern Kyrgyzstan.
Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbaev of Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan makes case at UN for additional aid after violent clashes

27 September 2010
Kyrgyzstan’s needs further international assistance to recover from the effects of the inter-ethnic violence in June, the country’s Foreign Minister told the General Assembly today, saying there were people still in need of housing, medical aid and other social services.
President of Kyrgyzstan Rosa Otunbaeva

UN chief pledges continued support for Kyrgyz recovery

23 September 2010
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today assured the President of Kyrgyzstan of the continued support of the United Nations for rehabilitation, recovery and reconciliation in the Central Asian nation in the wake of the crisis that erupted earlier this year.
Kyrgyz woman returns to find her home destroyed

Kyrgyzstan: UN agencies gearing up operations ahead of winter

24 August 2010
United Nations agencies are gearing up efforts to ensure that hundreds of thousands of people affected by the recent violence in Kyrgyzstan have enough food and adequate shelter ahead of the upcoming winter season.
Photo: T. Rohrbacher

UNICEF striving to ensure Kyrgyz children can return to school next month

14 August 2010
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Kyrgyz authorities have launched an initiative to ensure safe access to education at the start of the new school year in September for thousands of youngsters affected by the recent violence in the southern city of Osh.
Kyrgyz woman returns to find her home destroyed

Lack of funding jeopardizing aid efforts in Kyrgyzstan, UN reports

10 August 2010
The United Nations and its aid partners today voiced concern that immediate humanitarian needs in Kyrgyzstan will go unmet since they have only received 30 per cent of the $96 million requested to provide life-saving assistance to civilians affected by recent violence.
This family's home was destroyed in Bazar Korgon in Jalalabad province in eastern Kyrgyzstan in June 2010

Better conditions needed in Kyrgyzstan to help 75,000 people still uprooted – UN

27 July 2010
The United Nations refugee agency today called on Kyrgyz authorities to improve conditions to allow 75,000 people who remain uprooted after last month’s deadly ethnic clashes, as the world body and its partners appealed for more funds to help those affected by the violence.