UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi urges support for crisis-hit Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon – At the end of a two day visit to Lebanon, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, urged the international community to scale-up its support to the Lebanese people and the refugees they host. “I am visiting Lebanon during a very difficult...
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...
News comment: Death of former High Commissioner Jean-Pierre Hocké
Former UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Jean-Pierre Hocké, who led the UN Refugee Agency from 1986 to 1989, passed away on Monday in Lausanne, Switzerland. Prior to becoming UNHCR’s sixth High Commissioner in 1986, Mr. Hocké, a Swiss national, served as Director of...