COVID-19 inducing ‘widespread despair’ among refugees, UNHCR appeals for urgent support for mental health
The consequences of the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, deteriorating socio-economic conditions, protracted displacement and the critical shortfall in solutions to displacement are leading to widespread despair among refugees, warns UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency today....
UNHCR’s Gillian Triggs warns COVID-19 severely testing refugee protection
International standards of refugee protection have been severely tested in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency’s, international protection chief said today. In a key annual address to UNHCR’s annual Executive Committee meeting in...
COVID-19 crisis underlines need for refugee solidarity and inclusion
Global pandemic has curtailed access to asylum and threatened refugee rights, but has also shown the value of protecting displaced people, says UNHCR’s Gillian Triggs. By UNHCR Staff GENEVA – While the COVID-19 pandemic has “profoundly tested” global commitment to...