IDAHOT: UNHCR launching consultations on LGBTI refugees’ rights
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has launched this week a series of consultations to identify ways of ensuring that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) refugees are better protected against harm, and are able to seek justice and support when they...
Photo exhibit turns lens on LGBTQI refugees in Canada
“Am I Wrong to Love?” shares powerful experiences of individuals forced to flee By Lauren La Rose in Toronto, Canada Many years before they met by chance on social media and fell in love, Nouran Hussein and Miral Mokhtar were bonded by a common truth about who they...
Syrian family embrace their homing instinct
Displaced inside their country since 2012, a young family return home to find their old neighbourhood in ruins. Now they are striving to put their lives back together. By Christopher Reardon in Homs, Syria From the rooftop above his family’s flat, a brown-eyed boy...
Hungary’s coerced removal of Afghan families deeply shocking
Hungary’s actions overnight to force two asylum-seeking Afghan families to leave the country under duress is deeply shocking and a flagrant violation of international and EU law, the UN Refugee Agency said today. The two families, four adults and seven children, who...
Move refugees in Tripoli out of harm’s way, urges UNHCR
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is calling for refugees and migrants in detention centres in conflict areas in Tripoli to be immediately evacuated to safety, after an airstrike hit a target less than 100 metres away from Tajoura detention centre, where over 500 refugees...
UNHCR chief calls for solidarity with refugees in Ramadan
At the start of the holy month, Filippo Grandi asks us to remember almost 70 million people forcibly uprooted from their homes. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, shared his warmest wishes with all those observing the holy month of Ramadan, which...
Attacks in Congo’s North Kivu province push tens of thousands to flee
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. Insecurity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu province led to more...
Rohingya youth spearhead project to foster mental health
Asking for help was once taboo, but young refugee volunteers in Bangladesh are showing their peers how to speak up about their worries and sadness. COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh – The camps have the size and complexity of a city, a city of refugees. It is a city of 720,000...