PRESS RELEASE

• Saudi Arabia provides US$10.8 million to UNHCR.

• Over 70, 000 Afghan refugees return this year.

• UNHCR calls for Pakistan to sign Refugee Convention.

• UNHCR Starts Aid Delivery to assist Hunza lake displaced.

• Voluntary Repatriation Agreement for 1.7 Million Afghan Refugees in Pakistan extended through 2010.

• More than 22,000 Afghans return home in first month of voluntary repatriation.

• UNHCR and UN-HABITAT Joint Hands to help the displaced living with the host families.

• Afghans return from Pakistan cross 30,000 mark.

• UNHCR welcome private donation for assigning IDPs of Swat, Dir and Buner.

• Afghans voluntary return via Peshawar suspended temporally.

• UNHCR calls for cash and in-kind donation to help Pakistan displaced people; Relief bank setup in Noshwara.

• World Makes World Refugees Day on June 20.

• Afghan Refugees return home but find only a life of desperation.

• Quetta Afghan return centre closed on 6 September.

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