Yemen can’t wait: A window into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis
By Jean-Nicolas Beuze, as told to Lauren La Rose After completing his post as UNHCR Canada Representative, Jean-Nicolas Beuze assumed his new role this year as UNHCR’s Representative in Yemen, where more than 80 per cent of the population depend on humanitarian aid...
Coming home: After years in the field with the UN, I’m proud to continue my humanitarian work in Canada
When I assumed my new role as UNHCR Canada Representative at the beginning of 2020, I couldn’t have anticipated after returning home how much Canada and the world as we know it would change so significantly in the coming months — and for the foreseeable future. The...
International community must act with ‘urgency’ to end crisis in Central Sahel
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi tells conference that COVID-19 adds a new threat to a region already grappling with record numbers forced to flee their homes. By Jonathan Clayton and Sarah Schafer GENEVA/COPENHAGEN – UN High Commissioner for Refugees...
UNHCR calls for protection, support for civilians affected by violence in southern Afghanistan
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, calls for urgent protection and assistance for tens of thousands of civilians displaced by recent escalation of violence in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand Province. Men, women and children have been forced from their homes in...
UNHCR calls for solidarity, support and solutions for Rohingya refugees ahead of an urgent donor conference
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. On the eve of this week’s donor conference for Rohingya refugees, UNHCR, the UN...
Baaba Maal appeals for support for Sahel
Senegalese musician, singer and UNHCR supporter calls for action to end world’s fastest growing displacement crisis. By Baaba Maal My homeland – the Sahel – is on its knees, brought low by conflict, hunger and disease. I am called the ‘Voice of the Sahel’. For years,...
Peruvian football club Alianza Lima partners with UNHCR to support refugees
Peru’s Alianza Lima has become the country’s first professional football club to partner with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to support refugee integration. The club has pledged to provide talented young refugees and migrants with sports scholarships to attend its...
UNHCR’s life-saving flights from Libya resume after seven-month suspension
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency evacuated last night a group of 153 vulnerable refugees...