UNHCR and Sony partner to strengthen refugee health and access to safe water
Sony contributes $6 million to support COVID-19 recovery efforts and disease prevention in Bangladesh and the southern Africa region TOKYO – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today welcomed a new partnership commitment from Sony Group Corporation (Sony) – through Japan...
Q&A: ‘We’re changing the world of supply in humanitarian work as we know it’
As the head of supply management at UNHCR, Ben Safari is leading efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and make the provision of aid to forcibly displaced people more sustainable By Kristy Siegfried Ben Safari has gone from being a recipient of the UN Refugee...
Five Ways UNHCR is greening its supply chain
From redesigning the relief items we distribute to minimizing the waste they generate, UNHCR is working to reduce the environmental impacts of its humanitarian assistance By Kristy Siegfried After fleeing their homes, refugees rely on UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to...
Over 4 Million Venezuelan refugees and migrants struggle to meet basic needs across the Americas
IOM and UNHCR call for investments in solutions that also benefit host communities GENEVA/PANAMA CITY – Despite efforts by host countries to regularize and integrate refugees and migrants from Venezuela, more than 4 million people still face difficulties accessing...
Education on Hold: Almost half of school-aged refugee children from Ukraine missing out on formal education
This is a summary of what was said by Wiliam Spindler – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva As the new school year commences across Europe, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning that refugee...
My Journey: How education helps refugee girls break the cycle of hardship
Monicah Malith fled conflict in South Sudan as a girl and moved to Kenya, where she overcame challenges to continue her education and is now a law student the first female refugee President of the University of Nairobi Students Association By Monicah Malith As a young...
New UNHCR report reveals over 7 million refugee children out of school
GENEVA – More than half of the world’s 14.8 million school-aged refugee children are currently missing out on formal education, risking their future prosperity and the attainment of global development goals, according to a new report published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee...
UNHCR’s Grandi praises Chad’s role hosting Sudanese; more aid urgently needed
Over 400,000 people, mostly women and children, have fled Sudan for Chad, nearly doubling the number of the Sudanese refugees being hosted by the country N’Djamena – Chad is in urgent need of more international support to help it cope with the surge in the...