voluntary repatriation

For voluntary repatriation to work, we also need people to have the land rights which they formerly held.

At the same time, what officials had hoped would be a promising program of voluntary repatriation has been disappointing.

The Indonesian government has assured us that the voluntary repatriation process will soon be concluded.

During the year, authorities assisted foreign trafficking victims with voluntary repatriation.

In these circumstances, "voluntary repatriation" takes on new meaning.

Nearly 1,000 Vietnamese have returned home under a voluntary repatriation program begun last March.

At this stage, the preconditions for an orderly and voluntary repatriation unfortunately are not met.

Jakarta and Hanoi signed an agreement in 1993 on voluntary repatriations.

As of September, only 264 Vietnamese elected voluntary repatriation, despite every inducement.

"Voluntary repatriation can be a solution only if accompanied by efforts to create proper conditions for reintegration," she said.

But it was not like the "voluntary repatriation" that is happening in Sierra Leone.

There was a need to offer voluntary repatriation to members of ethnic minorities settled in the UK, he said.

"This will not be a voluntary repatriation," said a refugee agency official here, acknowledging a reality he did not like.

Applications for voluntary repatriation virtually dried up.

That organization advocates voluntary repatriation and local resettlement well ahead of settlement abroad as a solution to refugee problems.

But they have refused to go back under the existing voluntary repatriation scheme, and that suggests they will resist the new proposal.

In the language of international aid, "voluntary repatriation" refers to the homecoming of refugees who once fled war.

For two decades, the United States and Mexico have had an agreement for the voluntary repatriation of prisoners.

More than 580,000 Afghans had gone home from the camps since the UN's voluntary repatriation programme began in 2002.

Peregrine Worsthorne saw voluntary repatriation as the answer to Britain's immigration question.

The government has not developed or implemented standardized procedures for safe, voluntary repatriation for victims exploited in Malta.

The Bush Administration has always favored "the voluntary repatriation of the contras back into Nicaragua under safe and democratic conditions," she said.

The second measure is a proposal for joint action supporting the reception and voluntary repatriation of refugees, displaced persons and asylum applicants.

Increased aid was not going to discourage people immediately and it was inconceivable that increased voluntary repatriation could suffice on its own, he said.

He has supported the view that voluntary repatriation of refugees is the best and most durable solution, specifically in the case of Afghan refugees.