UNHCR and OECD launch action plan to boost refugee employment
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, is launching an innovative action plan to expand employment opportunities for refugees. This Action Plan fully supports a new approach, whereby refugees would be...
Rohingya widows worry about their families’ futures
By Tim Gaynor in Kutupalong refugee settlement, Bangladesh In a plastic-roofed shack near an open sewer in Bangladesh, Rohingya refugee widow Sufia Khatun is doing all she can to fend for the family she now heads. Her husband, Nur Mohammad, was struck with a machete...
Guatemalan network welcomes those fleeing gang violence
By UNHCR Staff in El Ceibo, Guatemala For nearly a decade, Andrés Toribio and his wife opened their home on the Guatemala-Mexico border to provide shelter and protection for people fleeing violence in Central America, knowing that the route to safety can be dangerous....