Global photo project shows power of football during displacement
As the European football championships kick off, Goal Click Refugees campaign reveals how the sport promotes integration as seen through the eyes of forcibly displaced people. By Matthew Saltmarsh LONDON, UK – A series of personal photos and stories by refugees...
UNHCR welcomes Pope Francis’ support for internally displaced
By Gillian Triggs, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency “On the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, UNHCR appreciates the message of Pope Francis highlighting the plight of people who have been displaced within their own country....
UNHCR names Nansen Refugee Award regional winners
The everyday heroes from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East are being honoured for their outstanding humanitarian work. By Bathoul Ahmed GENEVA – A refugee school teacher striving to empower rape survivors, a scientist and mother of four on a quest to make...
‘With this law, I will finally get a sense of how it is to exist’
A new statelessness determination procedure in Ukraine gives people without identity documents the right to work, study and access health care. By Victoria Andrievska in Kyiv, Ukraine Despite having cancer, Olena Miryasheva was denied access to health care: she could...
UNHCR welcomes new Ukrainian statelessness law set to end legal limbo for thousands
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes a new statelessness law in Ukraine which came...
UNHCR Canada Magazine
UNHCR Canada Magazine Your biannual magazine from the United Nations Refugee Agency in Canada. Read the latest issue of the UNHCR Canada magazine. Photo: © UNHCR/Antwan Chnkdji Twice a year, UNHCR Canada publishes a magazine to keep our donors and supporters informed...
Sudan’s internally displaced yearn for real peace to go home
About 1.6 million people are displaced, nearly two decades after Sudan’s war in Darfur started. They long to return home and rebuild but need lasting peace. By Catherine Wachiaya in Kabkabiya, North Darfur, Sudan Nearly two decades after conflict in Sudan’s Darfur...Home
Lebanon EmergencyAttacks across Lebanon are claiming innocent lives and forcing thousands to flee their homes, including refugees in Lebanon. SEND EMERGENCY AID Flooding in YemenYemen is gripped by one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. And now heavy rain and...