Millions face harm from flooding across West and Central Africa, UNHCR warns
GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning of surging needs for more than 3.4 million displaced people and their hosts in the face of recent destructive flooding in Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali and Cameroon. Nigeria is facing the worst floods...
UNHCR congratulates the Olympic Refuge Foundation and the Refugee Olympic Team on 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports
MADRID – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi today extended UNHCR’s heartfelt congratulations to the Olympic Refuge Foundation (ORF) and the Refugee Olympic Team on receiving one of Spain’s most prestigious awards. The Princess of Asturias Award for...
Returned refugees break ground at South Sudan farm cooperative
Looking to build a secure future, returning refugees are working alongside local residents to turn a 250-acre plot of bushland into a productive farm. By Tim Gaynor in Magwi, South Sudan With wet season rains just days away, a group of farm workers race to...
Henriquez Partners Architects supports refugee scholars to reach new heights
From lifeline to lifelong: How education is helping a new generation of displaced young people redefine their futures. For refugees, gaining access to higher education is an uphill battle. Despite the huge demand among refugees for education at all levels,...
UNHCR’s Grandi sounds alarm as drought grips Horn of Africa
NAIROBI – As he concluded a five-day visit to Somalia and Kenya on Tuesday, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, called on global leaders to spare no efforts in assisting countries in the Horn of Africa to break the cycle of conflict and climate crises....
UNHCR deplores continued deportation of Myanmar asylum-seekers from Malaysia
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, is seriously concerned over the continued deportation by...
Data shows impacts of rising prices and shrinking aid on forcibly displaced people
A new data visualization reveals how the ripple effects of the Ukraine war are impacting refugees and internally displaced people in parts of the world far from the media spotlight The consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for refugees and internally displaced...
UNHCR’s unprecedented US$700m funding gap spells catastrophe for millions
Geneva – Over recent months, funding shortfalls have forced UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to make cuts to its lifesaving aid to refugees and other forcibly displaced people in a number of operations across the world. Without an injection of at least US$700 million...