Looming famine in Yemen: The growing risk of food insecurity
Hundreds of thousands face heightened risk of food insecurity in Yemen. By Jean-Nicolas Beuze, as told to Lauren La Rose The country that is home to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis is facing growing challenges. There is heightened risk of food insecurity in...
Combatting COVID-19: UNHCR’s ongoing pandemic response
UNHCR’s ongoing response to the once-in-a-century health crisis. Jordan achieved a major milestone in the fight against COVID-19 becoming one of the world’s first countries to start COVID-19 vaccinations for refugees. UNHCR is hopeful other nations will follow their...
FLASH UPDATE: Unfolding crisis in the Central African Republic
2021 continues to be marked by unrest for the people of the Central African Republic (CAR). An eruption of violence following elections in late December 2020 has forced more than 100,000 people to flee from CAR to neighbouring countries. The overwhelming majority of...
Rwanda vaccinates refugees and asylum-seekers against COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten the lives and rights of refugees, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the Rwandan government’s vaccination this week of 416 refugees – one of the first countries in Africa to do so. Nearly one year since the...
News comment: UNHCR voices concern over removal of Rohingya refugees outside its office in New Delhi, India
This news comment is attributable to Indrika Ratwatte, Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned about 88 Rohingya refugees and asylum-seekers who were taken away by the law enforcement authorities from the...
Uganda shows how including refugees can lift up a whole society
On a visit to Bidibidi settlement, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi described projects involving government, refugees, aid groups and locals as ‘game changers’. By Yonna Tukundane and Wendy Kasujja in Bidibidi, Uganda When Agnes Baitio fled fighting...
IOM, UNHCR: Latest Mediterranean tragedy underscores need for search and rescue
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, are deeply saddened by the latest loss of life in the Central Mediterranean, after two boats capsized off Tunisia’s shores on Tuesday, 9 March. At least 39 people drowned in a...
UNHCR concerned by Hungary’s latest measures affecting access to asylum
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, deplores the recent decision of the Hungarian government to extend a decree that authorizes the police to automatically and summarily remove anyone intercepted for irregular entry and stay. As a result of this decision, people who may be...