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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.
UNDP has allocated around $1.4 million for a cash-for-work programme in Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan: UN job scheme seeks to aid recovery in areas hit by recent unrest

22 July 2010
More than 1,100 people affected by the violence that erupted in southern Kyrgyzstan last month have been given short-term jobs under a United Nations scheme aimed at injecting much-needed cash into the local economy and providing incomes so people can restart their lives.
High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay

Kyrgyz security forces committing human rights violations, says top UN official

20 July 2010
Security forces in southern Kyrgyzstan are responsible for human rights violations, ranging from arbitrary detention to torture, threatening the fragile peace in the area six weeks after it was rocked by deadly inter-ethnic violence, a top United Nations official said today.
This woman who was displaced by the violence in southern Kyrgyzstan returned to find her house badly damaged

Kyrgyzstan: UN says 75,000 still displaced one month after clashes

16 July 2010
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today that some 75,000 people are still displaced one month after the deadly clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan, which uprooted nearly 400,000 people and sent many fleeing to neighbouring Uzbekistan.
UNICEF supplies for refugees in the Feghana Valley where thousands of ethnic Uzbeks have fled across the border from Kyrgyzstan

UNICEF helps provide safe spaces for children affected by Kyrgyz violence

14 July 2010
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and its partners have embarked on a project to open safe spaces where children who have suffered during the recent violence in Kyrgyzstan can play together and receive counselling.
Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres talks to returned refugees and IDPs in Jalalabad, southern Kyrgyzstan

Wrapping up visit to Kyrgyzstan, UN official calls for reconciliation

2 July 2010
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has appealed for continued calm in the wake of deadly ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan to allow for reconciliation efforts to gain traction.
A woman collects vegetable oil and packages of high energy biscuits at a WFP distribution point

UN continues rushing food aid to Kyrgyzstan

1 July 2010
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is continuing to distribute supplies to people who have been affected by the recent deadly ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan.