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Commitment to just, equitable and peaceful societies will ensure refugees can contribute to sustainable development: UN experts
Ahead of the Summit of the Future, the Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights (PIERR), a group of UN and regional human rights experts issued the following statement:
“When world leaders gather at the United Nations Summit, they aim to adopt a Pact for the Future, along with a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration for Future Generations. The Summit offers a critical opportunity to move toward creating a more peaceful and fairer future where human rights are upheld for all – including refugees.
UNHCR reminds States of legal obligations to end arbitrary detention of asylum-seekers
Concerned by the arbitrary detention of asylum-seekers by some States, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for urgent reforms to halt this detrimental practice.
UNHCR scrambles aid as devastating floods sweep Nigeria
Heavy rains have ravaged 30 of Nigeria’s 36 states. According to the government, over a million people have been affected, 269 lives tragically lost, and more than 640,000 have been displaced from their homes.
UNHCR welcomes Thailand’s full adoption of international convention to protect child rights
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the Royal Thai Government’s decision to withdraw its reservation to Article 22 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) which relates to the rights of refugee children.
UNHCR urgently appeals for funds to reinforce health services amid mpox emergency
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, needs $21.4 million until the end of the year to urgently scale up critical response and prevention efforts for refugees in countries impacted by the mpox emergency. The appeal, launched today, aims to support 9.9 million forcibly displaced people and host communities in 35 countries across Africa.
Despite progress, more to be done on unlocking power of refugee education
Five years on from the launch of UNHCR’s Refugee Education Strategy 2030, this year’s refugee education report reveals that while remarkable progress has been achieved in global refugee education and enrolment, significant challenges remain, with nearly half of the world’s 14.8 million school-aged refugee children still out of school.
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