Displaced and stateless women and girls at heightened risk of gender-based violence in the coronavirus pandemic
Around the world COVID-19 is taking lives and changing communities but the virus is also inducing massive protection risks for women and girls forced to flee their homes, the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Gillian Triggs,...
An urgent call to fund the global emergency supply system to fight COVID-19
Dear donor community, Humanity is collectively facing its most daunting challenge since the Second World War. COVID-19 knows no borders, spares no country or continent, and strikes indiscriminately. By all accounts, we are at least 12 months away from a vaccine. In...
Help arrives on three wheels for displaced Yemeni recyclers
After losing his home and business in Yemen’s conflict, Said is among 90 displaced recyclers whose earnings have doubled after receiving new tricycles from UNHCR. By Marie-Joelle Jean-Charles in Aden, Yemen Said pedals his bright red tricycle through the dusty back...
6 Faces of the Sahel Crisis
Text by Kathryn Mahoney Photos by Sylvain Cherkaoui In Burkina Faso, almost nowhere is safe. Armed groups, extremists and criminal gangs wage terror on a daily basis, murdering those who refuse to fight alongside them. The killers shoot families to death. They rape...
West and Central Africa: conflict and coronavirus threaten millions of people
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be athttps://media.unhcr.org/Share/fn4sl405yj8rd3s46qg8g462boop2c1v tributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee...
Ongoing insecurity in eastern DRC could derail coronavirus containment
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – 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 warning that the latest rounds of violence in eastern...
Refugee call centre fills gap amid Lebanon’s coronavirus shutdown
With most face-to-face humanitarian programmes now on hold, region’s largest call centre offers vital support to struggling refugees during COVID-19 lockdown. By Rima Cherri in Jal El Dib, Lebanon In a large, open-plan office on the outskirts of the Lebanese capital,...
Support for internally displaced people needs to be ‘urgently stepped up’
UNHCR’s Sumbul Rizvi reflects on why the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement remain so important, especially amid new dangers posed by coronavirus. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg Millions of people are forced to flee their homes each year because of conflict or...