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3 Holiday Gifts That Will Transform Refugee Lives
With the refugee crisis that has shaken the globe in 2016, the holidays mark a special opportunity to make a difference in the life of a refugee. That is why UNHCR makes it easy to give gifts where they’re needed most through our Gift Catalogue. For less than $100,...
Over one million children flee 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 today. “The horrifying fact that nearly one in five children in...
Canada’s 2016 Record High Level of Resettlement Praised by UNHCR
OTTAWA, Canada, April 24 (UNHCR) – 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 to Canada in 2016. This is the largest amount...
A Syrian Family Finds Acceptance for their Disabled Children through Canadian Resettlement
By Erla Cabrera, Ottawa, Canada – 24 April 2017 A Syrian mother recalls the warm welcome received upon her family’s arrival Thanks to the warm welcome and 24-hour care provided by a group of YMCA volunteers in Saint John, New Brunswick, a newly resettled Syrian family...
Joint Press Release calling for an end to the immigration detention of children in Canada
OTTAWA, Canada, April 12 (UNHCR) – Following the roundtable today on Parliament Hill discussing the immigration detention of children, Senator Mobina Jaffer and Senator Victor Oh joined forces with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to reiterate...
Syrian refugees hit 5 million – Jean-Nicolas Beuze on CBC
UNHCR Representative in Canada Jean-Nicolas Beuze on CBC Power and Politics with Rosemary Barton on 30 March 2017. Canada's UNHCR rep. @jnbeuze on Syrian refugee numbers surpassing the 5 million mark and the kind of help the UN needs #pnpcbc #cdnpoli...
South Sudan: 3 Years of Civil War
This past December marked three years since the beginning of South Sudan’s latest civil war. Before December 2013, over 115,000 South Sudanese people were classified as refugees or asylum-seekers. Three years later, that number has reached over 1.6 million. In South...
Government of Uganda, UNHCR on South Sudan refugee situation
Joint statement on behalf of the Government of Uganda and UNHCR The Government of Uganda and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi today jointly appealed to the international community for urgent and massive support for the thousands of South Sudan refugees...
New U.S. rules regarding refugee resettlement
UNHCR underscores humanitarian imperative for refugees as new U.S. rules announced In light of today’s Executive Order regarding U.S. refugee resettlement, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, underscores that refugees are ordinary people forced to flee war, violence and...
Poorer countries host most of the forcibly displaced – report
According to a new UNHCR study, most of the 3.2 million who were driven from their homes in the first half of 2016 found shelter in low or middle income countries. GENEVA – Conflict, persecution and violence newly uprooted at least 3.2 million people in the first half...
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