UNHCR’s Grandi hails launch of Kenya’s landmark refugee inclusion plan
NAIROBI – The Government of Kenya launched a groundbreaking initiative on Friday to improve the lives of more than 830,000 refugees and asylum-seekers and their generous hosts, by transitioning the country’s refugee camps into integrated settlements where refugees and...
New Global Alliance launched for joint action to end statelessness
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi joined by statelessness advocates to launch new global initiative building on a decade of progress By UNHCR staff A new Global Alliance to End Statelessness was launched in Geneva on Monday with UN High Commissioner for...
UNHCR: Decade of action against statelessness brings big gains but further action needed
GENEVA – More than half a million people around the world who were living in the shadows, deprived of their right to nationality, have now acquired citizenship since the inception a decade ago of the #IBelong campaign, according to a new report on statelessness...