Hardship and progress in the fight against COVID-19
The latest on UNHCR’s ongoing pandemic response. Significant progress has been made in recent months to improve access to COVID-19 vaccines for forcibly displaced people. But the damaging, lasting impact of the pandemic on the lives of refugees and internally...
UNHCR welcomes U.S. renewed effort to end policy that endangers asylum-seekers
This statement is attributable to Matthew Reynolds, UNHCR Representative for the United States and the Caribbean. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the U.S. government’s most recent step to end the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program. UNHCR has...
More than 60,000 Burundian refugees voluntarily return home this year
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. A convoy carrying 343 Burundian refugees returned to the country from Uganda on...