News Releases
We bring you the most up-to-date information from UNHCR Canada through news releases.
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Refugee family makes $1 million gift to UNHCR as they commemorate their 50 years in Canada
Nanji Family Foundation commemorates 50th anniversary of South Asian exile from Uganda by providing over 50 young refugees with tertiary scholarships through UNHCR’s Aiming Higher campaign.
Displaced Syrians face bleak Ramadan as economic pain follows COVID-19
By UNHCR Staff Across much of the Middle East and North Africa, Holy Month celebrations are replaced by a struggle for survival amid economic shocks and rising food prices. Ahmad had hoped Ramadan would provide some welcome relief for his family this year....
Rwandan refugee begins new life caring for elderly Canadians
The first thing Bahati Ernestine Hategekimana remembers about Nova Scotia is how green the Canadian province seemed compared to the neighbourhood in Kenya’s capital Nairobi where the 28-year-old Rwandan refugee had spent most of her life.
Ukraine crisis creates new trafficking risks
By Kristy Siegfried in Rzeszów, Poland As millions of refugees flee Ukraine, aid agencies are raising the alarm about the risks of sexual exploitation and abuse and human trafficking. At the border post in Medyka, Poland, a steady stream of exhausted refugees...
Urgent help needed in Malawi to rebuild lives wrecked by Tropical Storm Ana
By Rumbani Msiska in Lilongwe, Malawi More than 190,000 people who lost or fled their homes during the January storm remain displaced inside the country, living in sites that often lack basic necessities. It had been a typical day for 70-year-old Edesi Waiti and her...
Spiraling costs, surging conflict, and soaring climate disasters create a desperate future for millions of refugees across Eastern Africa
WFP and UNHCR Joint News Release NAIROBI – Millions of displaced families across eastern Africa will fall deeper into hunger as food rations dwindle due to humanitarian resources being stretched to the limit as the world grapples with a toxic cocktail of conflict,...
Statement on risks of trafficking and exploitation facing refugees from Ukraine
The following statement is attributed to Gillian Triggs, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection.
Mixed emotions for family partially reunited after fleeing Tigray conflict
By Abdulkhaliq Khalif in Hamdayet, Sudan A bittersweet reunion for an Ethiopian mother and her daughter after months of separation Letha was seven months pregnant when she made the difficult decision to leave her home in Ethiopia’s western Tigray region without all of...
Our Guide to Donating Stocks and Securities to Help Ukraine
Did you know that cash donations are not the only way to support UNHCR? Making a gift of publicly traded securities to UNHCR today—or in the future in your Will — offers you the chance to support refugees in need, while being more tax-advantageous for you. In fact, gifts of securities may be the most cost-effective way of giving.
UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner lauds solidarity of Romania and the Republic of Moldova towards Ukrainian refugees
Concluding a week-long visit to Romania and the Republic of Moldova, Raouf Mazou expressed his appreciation for the remarkable solidarity displayed in both countries towards people fleeing Ukraine. “In the past days, I have witnessed first-hand the generosity that has...
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