Women in many countries face discrimination in registering children at birth warn UNHCR and UNICEF
GENEVA / NEW YORK – A joint report released today by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), shows that in many countries women can face discrimination which obstructs or hinders their ability to register births, exposing their...
Pathway to jobs in education for refugee graduates under new UNHCR and Teach For All partnership
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the Teach For All global network are teaming up to support employment in education for refugee university graduates through a network of teaching fellowship programmes. The partnership will support the inclusion of refugees in host...
Data visualization brings to light COVID-19’s threats to forcibly displaced women and children
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is today releasing a new data visualization, which highlights the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the safety and wellbeing of forcibly displaced women and children. Seventy per cent of all forcibly displaced people...
Displaced nurses provide vital health care to others displaced in Ethiopia’s Tigray
As UNHCR and other aid agencies scale up the humanitarian response in conflict-torn Tigray, local communities and the displaced are pulling together to support one another. By Giulia Naboni and Elisabeth Arnsdorf Haslund in Mekelle, Ethiopia In a small, one-room stone...
UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Gillian Triggs among laureates of inaugural Ruth Bader Ginsburg Medal of Honor
Geneva – UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Gillian Triggs was awarded the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Medal of Honor today in Madrid at a ceremony hosted by H.M. King Felipe VI of Spain and organized by the World Jurist Association. The Ruth Bader Ginsburg...
Data points to negative impacts of COVID-19 for forcibly displaced women and children
A new data visualization shows how the pandemic has deepened the risks of violence and abuse for displaced women and children. The coronavirus pandemic has had a damaging impact on the lives of millions of refugees and internally displaced people, but the consequences...
Displacement leaves families struggling to adapt in Lake Chad region
Years after fleeing jihadist attacks, many displaced people in Chad’s Lake Province still cannot return home and are trying to rebuild their lives as best as they can. By Noémie Lehouelleur in Forkoroum camp, Lake Province, Chad “Six years, nine months.” Alimi Abali,...
‘Every little act of kindness will be remembered’
Once a refugee of the war in Viet Nam and now a US Army Colonel, Danielle Ngo has a message for everyone on America’s Independence Day. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Danielle Ngo remembers one thing from the day she became a refugee. It was April 29, 1975, a day before the...