News Comment: UNHCR echoes call for global action to resolve internal displacement
This news comment is attributable to Raouf Mazou, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Operations Today, more than 48 million people remain forcibly displaced within their own countries due to conflict and violence, with the majority women and children. Amid...
UN High Commissioner for Refugees completes three-day visit to Afghanistan
Concluding a three-day visit to Afghanistan today, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, appealed for urgent and sustained support for Afghans inside the country and for refugees who have fled abroad. “The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan remains...
‘After the airlift’. News Comment attributable to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi
The evacuation from Kabul is coming to an end. A larger crisis is just beginning. The act of fleeing the country of one’s birth brings with it a harrowing sense of loss. The scenes at Kabul airport these past few days have sparked an outpouring of compassion around...