News Releases
We bring you the most up-to-date information from UNHCR Canada through news releases.
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Afghan teen aspires to help her country heal
Forty years of conflict have trapped millions of Afghans in exile, but Nadia yearns to go home – when peace returns, and once she has the medical skills to care for her people.
5 stories about love to melt your heart
Refugees face countless hurdles; but love is one of the things that hold them together. Here is a list of our favourite stories that have opened our hearts.
UNHCR welcomes Ethiopia’s ratification of Kampala Convention
UNHCR welcomes Ethiopia’s ratification yesterday of the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa, known as the Kampala Convention.
Refugee athlete takes part in Tokyo Marathon 2020
Yonas Kinde, a refugee athlete living in Luxembourg, has been selected as an elite runner for the Tokyo Marathon for the first time in the event’s history.
More Cameroonian refugees flee to Nigeria, bringing total arrivals close to 60,000 mark
Almost 8,000 Cameroonian refugees have fled to Nigeria’s eastern and southern states of Taraba and Cross Rivers over the past fortnight.
Refugees and communities bank on a brighter future in Pakistan
The need for greater solidarity with Afghan refugees and their hosts is to be discussed at two-day conference in Pakistan this month.
Four decades and counting: An urgent need to rekindle hope for millions of Afghan refugees
UNHCR is calling on the world not to let hope fade for millions of displaced Afghans, impacted by more than four decades of unrest in Afghanistan
UNHCR alarmed about worsening conditions for newly displaced in eastern DRC
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned by the worsening situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) eastern Beni Territory
Newly displaced in Syria in urgent need of protection, shelter
UNHCR is deeply concerned about the safety and well-being of civilians in north-west Syria. The humanitarian crisis is becoming increasingly desperate
Viral video captures emotional Syrian refugee family reunion at Winnipeg airport
Viral video captures the emotional Syrian refugee family reunion with a relative at Winnipeg airport, after three years of separation.
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