Winners announced for UNHCR Youth with Refugees Art Contest
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today announced the winners of its first-ever Youth with Refugees Art Contest. More than 2,000 participants from 100 countries submitted drawings and comic strips. One in four participants were themselves refugees or asylum-seekers....
UNHCR welcomes new Ukrainian statelessness law set to end legal limbo for thousands
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes a new statelessness law in Ukraine which came...
As South Sudan turns nine, its people remain committed to peace
Despite fears of an uncertain future, citizens of the world’s youngest nation cling to the hope of a peaceful South Sudan. By Elizabeth Marie Stuart in Juba, South Sudan It all began when she deescalated an argument at a water pump in the Don Bosco site for Internally...