Photo exhibit turns lens on LGBTQI refugees in Canada
“Am I Wrong to Love?” shares powerful experiences of individuals forced to flee By Lauren La Rose in Toronto, Canada Many years before they met by chance on social media and fell in love, Nouran Hussein and Miral Mokhtar were bonded by a common truth about who they...
UNHCR providing aid to 42,000 Libyans displaced by Tripoli clashes
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Charlie Yaxley – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. In Libya, thousands of women, children and men have been forced to flee to Tripoli’s...
UNHCR team witnesses destruction in aftermath of Cyclone Kenneth
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Charlie Yaxley – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. In Mozambique, a UNHCR team arrived in the north eastern town of Pemba on...