Monsoon response effort in full swing as seasonal rains hit Bangladesh
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is rushing additional aid to Bangladesh where the first monsoon rains have been affecting Cox’s Bazar district and the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees there. The first of three scheduled humanitarian airlifts carrying additional...
UNHCR Canada and Paramount Fine Foods CEO Mohamad Fakih launch partnership on refugee integration
TORONTO – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in Canada launched today a new partnership with Mohamad Fakih, the President and CEO of Paramount Fine Foods, to support the Agency’s work in support of refugees globally and in Canada. Mr. Fakih, who is also the Founder of the...
UNHCR welcomes the support of Canadian NGOs in the #WithRefugees World Tour
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is grateful for the support of Canadian NGOs, manifested through their involvement in the #WithRefugees World Tour, in the agency’s efforts to mobilize global solidarity for refugees and forcibly displaced people. The #WithRefugees World...
Canadian entrepreneur helps refugees stitch up new future at Swiss sewing workshop
By Robert Gloy in Zurich, Switzerland Among the colourful fabrics and sewing machines in a Zurich clothing workshop, Jamila leans across her workbench and carefully smooths the fabric of a black-and-yellow dress she is making, adjusting the hem and inserting pins here...
UNHCR and OECD launch action plan to boost refugee employment
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, is launching an innovative action plan to expand employment opportunities for refugees. This Action Plan fully supports a new approach, whereby refugees would be...
Rohingya widows worry about their families’ futures
By Tim Gaynor in Kutupalong refugee settlement, Bangladesh In a plastic-roofed shack near an open sewer in Bangladesh, Rohingya refugee widow Sufia Khatun is doing all she can to fend for the family she now heads. Her husband, Nur Mohammad, was struck with a machete...
Bangladesh, UNHCR agree on voluntary returns framework when Rohingya refugees decide conditions are right
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the Government of Bangladesh have finalized a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) relating to voluntary returns of Rohingya refugees once conditions in Myanmar are conducive. The Memorandum, signed by the UN High Commissioner for...
My search for safety
At an art event attended by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, Mexican artist Karina speaks about her experience of becoming a refugee after fleeing domestic violence in her home country. ©UNHCR/Michelle Siu In her own words, Karina recounts what she...