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Searching for Syria? Google and UNHCR offer answers to five top questions
New York / London / Paris / Berlin / Madrid – UNHCR, the UN Refugee
Agency, and Google are launching a powerful new website that gives global
online audiences an informative and compelling insight into...
UN refugee chief Grandi in Libya: UNHCR ramping up its humanitarian response
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today that it is stepping up its
presence and programmes in Libya in response to the worsening humanitarian
crisis resulting from conflict, insecurity, political...
Azraq, the world's first refugee camp powered by renewable energy
Joint UNHCR/IKEA Foundation
UNHCR, WFP agreement creates combined efficiencies to benefit refugees
GENEVA - The heads of the UN World Food Programme and UNHCR, the UN
Refugee Agency, signed an agreement in Geneva on Monday (May 15),
committing the two agencies to collaborate to provide cash-based assistance
for...
Over US$1.4 billion needed for South Sudan refugees in 2017.
GENEVA - The UN Refugee Agency and the World Food Programme today urged
donors to step up support for desperate refugees fleeing South Sudan.
Humanitarian agencies are seeking US$ 1.4 Billion to provide...
UNHCR and Food Sweet Food launch the Refugee Food Festival in 13 major European cities in support of refugee integration
UNHCR and the NGO Food Sweet Food announced today that the Refugee Food
Festival, a civil society led initiative born last year to showcase
refugees’ cooking talents and facilitate their integration, is...
More than one million children have fled escalating violence in South Sudan
JUBA/GENEVA/NAIROBI/NEW YORK, 8 May 2017 – More than one million
children have now fled South Sudan where escalating conflict is ravaging
the country, UNICEF and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced...
News comment by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, on Mediterranean crossings over the weekend
Since Friday, we‘ve seen over 6,000 people crossing the Mediterranean to
reach Italy – bringing the total this year to over 43,000. These massive
arrivals and the fact that more than 1,150 people have...
Angola: UNHCR airlifts aid to newly-arrived refugees from the DRC
A plane carrying UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, core relief items arrived in
Luanda, Angola, to assist over 11,000 people who fled a recent surge
violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The...
Yusra Mardini appointed UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
Yusra Mardini appointed UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.
UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner for Protection visits Afghanistan, urges for sustainable solutions to displaced Afghans
KABUL, Afghanistan - The United Nations Assistant High Commissioner for
Protection, Mr. Volker Türk, during his visit to Afghanistan, urged the
international community and the Government to ensure that...
Canada's 2016 record high level of resettlement praised by UNHCR
OTTAWA, Canada – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR) praised Canada today for providing solutions to the plight
of a record 46,700 refugees through their resettlement...
UNICEF and UNHCR welcome EU policy to protect migrant and refugee children
BRUSSELS, Belgium - UNICEF and UNHCR today welcome a new policy guidance
from the European Commission as an important milestone for the protection
of migrant and refugee children.
“It is the first EU...
UNHCR urges suspension of transfers of asylum-seekers to Hungary under Dublin
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today called for a temporary suspension of
all transfers of asylum-seekers to Hungary from other European States under
the Dublin Regulation. The Dublin regulation is an EU...
UNHCR calls for robust implementation of the "historic and ground breaking" Kampala Convention
On the occasion of the first Conference of State Parties to the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons
Kristin Davis appointed UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today announced the appointment of
internationally acclaimed actress and philanthropist Kristin Davis as its
Goodwill Ambassador.
Three years ago, Davis started her journey...
Lack of funding putting help for Syrian refugees and hosts at risk, as Brussels Syria Conference set to open
Joint UNHCR/UNDP Press Release
Kuwait, UNHCR sign landmark accord to aid Syrian refugees
Visit by UN Deputy High Commissioner Kelly T. Clements focuses on aid to Syrian refugees in northern Iraq before key conference in Brussels.
A year after key conference sought to boost resettlement targets for Syrian refugees, half of the 500,000 places sought have been achieved
As the number of men, women and children fleeing six years of war in Syria
passes the 5 million mark, the international community needs to do more to
help them, the UN refugee chief said today.
“We still...
News comment by Volker Türk, UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner for Protection on new Mediterranean shipwreck
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply saddened at the news of another shipwreck in the Mediterranean.
