Progress made on refugee health in 2024 at risk from funding cuts, UNHCR warns
GENEVA – Important achievements in preventing deaths and improving access to health services for refugees are at risk from the current funding uncertainty, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning. UNHCR’s 2024 Annual Public Health Global Review, released at the start...
UNHCR responds to the latest wave of deadly attacks in Ukraine
This is a summary of what was said by Karolina Lindholm Billing, UNHCR Representative in Ukraine- to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. GENEVA – Yesterday, 24 April, Kyiv residents woke up to...
UNHCR: Funding shortfalls threaten emergency response to Congolese refugees arriving in Burundi
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR Director for Emergencies Ayaki Ito – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. GENEVA – The humanitarian response in Burundi to the growing influx of...