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The US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCR) figured that the major returns were from Pakistan to Afghanistan, Tanzania to Burundi and from various countries to Sudan among others. It is a bitter reality that one out of four refugees in the world is from Afghanistan and Afghans are located in 69 different asylum countries. The World Refugee Survey 2009 published by the USCR mentioned that every year hundreds of thousands of refugees return to their home countries, but not always voluntarily. In some cases, fundamental changes in their home countries end the dangers that have forced them to flee and overtly forcible return remain rare.

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Posted in Feature and Analysis on 21 June 2009 Comments (0)

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