UNHCR private-sector partners win big at this year’s FT/IFC awards
By UNHCR Staff IKEA Foundation and Vodafone Foundation receive recognition for their work with UNHCR in solving challenges faced by refugees. Two of UNHCR’s private-sector partners, IKEA Foundation and Vodafone Foundation, won awards today at the Financial...
UNHCR’s Gillian Triggs warns COVID-19 severely testing refugee protection
International standards of refugee protection have been severely tested in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency’s, international protection chief said today. In a key annual address to UNHCR’s annual Executive Committee meeting in...
COVID-19 crisis underlines need for refugee solidarity and inclusion
Global pandemic has curtailed access to asylum and threatened refugee rights, but has also shown the value of protecting displaced people, says UNHCR’s Gillian Triggs. By UNHCR Staff GENEVA – While the COVID-19 pandemic has “profoundly tested” global commitment to...
UNHCR condemns killing of 25 internally displaced people in Burkina Faso
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, strongly condemns an attack that killed 25 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Burkina Faso on the night of 4 October. Survivors of the attack said that 25 people – all men – were killed, and one seriously injured when their convoy...
#IAmAnAdvocate: Q&A with Lebanese-Canadian entrepreneur Amani Abouchahine
Living in Lebanon after the country was left shook by a civil war, Amani Abouchahine will never forget the destruction her family witnessed and experienced. Now a business owner in Canada, Amani is working to give back to millions of people displaced worldwide. The...
Lifting the spirits of young athletes and helping them find motivation amid calls for racial justice
By Gisele Nyembwe “I want you guys to learn to trust yourself. You can’t walk with your heads low or be afraid to express yourself.” Manock Lual tells his players to know their worth and be proud of who they are. The 32-year old former pro-ball player is the founder...
“Now we have room to speak. But we still have a long way to go.”
UNHCR’s Juliette Murekeyisoni reflects on progress and setbacks for displaced women and girls since a landmark conference in 1995. By Sarah Schafer Twenty-five years ago in Beijing, government delegates, human rights activists and civil society leaders from around...
2020 Nansen Refugee Award spotlights child survivors of sexual exploitation
Mayerlín Vergara Pérez has spent decades helping rehabilitate survivors of childhood sexual exploitation. Around half of those she now serves are Venezuelan refugees and migrants. By Jenny Barchfield A Colombian woman who spent decades working to heal children and...