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Cash offers a lifeline to refugees from Ukraine arriving in Poland
By Kristy Siegfried in Warsaw, Poland Cash assistance is allowing refugees from Ukraine to make their own decisions about what they need most after arriving in Poland and other countries in the region. Eleven days after the war in Ukraine started, a bomb fell on the...
South Sudanese battle record floods amid rapidly changing climate
By Gift Friday Noah in Old Fangak, South Sudan Help is urgently needed ahead of the rainy season for the most vulnerable among 835,000 people hit by flooding in the world’s youngest nation. At first light, 70-year-old Cholul Jock slips into murky, chest-deep water...
UNHCR warns of dire impact from floods in South Sudan as new wet season looms
This is a summary of what was said by Andrew Harper, Special Advisor on Climate Action to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee...
UNHCR and partners call for sustained funding and support for Rohingya refugees
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. As the Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh is well advanced in its fifth year, UNHCR, the...
Refugees and migrants brave jungle wilderness in search of safety
The dense jungle of the Darien Gap is increasingly becoming a site of transit for Venezuelans, Haitians and other people forced to flee. By Sibylla Brodzinsky in Metetí, Panama The sores on Mariana’s* legs from the rubber boots she wore on the gruelling trek through...
Number of Venezuelans crossing the Darien Gap soars
More people, including a growing number of Venezuelans, are resorting to perilous crossings through the jungles of the Darien Gap in search of safety and stability, reports UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). As the...
Football unites in global appeal for the United Nations response to Ukraine
As the number of refugees fleeing Ukraine approaches four million, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and World Food Programme (WFP) launch the Football for Ukraine Emergency Appeal’
UNHCR lauds Philippines’ accession to 1961 statelessness convention
In a historic move, the Philippines has taken a major step towards eradicating statelessness in the country by acceding to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, becoming the 78th country to do so. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, commends the strong...
Number of displaced Nicaraguans in Costa Rica doubles in less than a year
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The number of Nicaraguan refugees and asylum seekers in Costa Rica has doubled in the...
A month since the start of the war, almost a quarter of Ukraine’s population are displaced
This is a summary of what was said by Karolina Lindholm Billing, UNHCR’s Representative to Ukraine – to whom quoted text may be attributed – speaking from Lviv to today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Over the past month, everything has changed...
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