Meet the Syrian cartoonist behind UNHCR’s first-ever NFT fundraiser
To mark the UN Refugee Agency’s 70th anniversary, award-winning cartoonist Hani Abbas has created seven images that will be sold as digital assets to raise funds for Afghanistan. By UNHCR Staff Syrian-Palestinian cartoonist Hani Abbas, 44, was born and grew up in...
Volunteers boost Sama Bajau birth registration amid pandemic
Since 2019, a community outreach programme has registered 900 of the indigenous seafarers in the Philippines who were at risk of statelessness. By Maria Jorica Pamintuan in Zamboanga City, Philippines At 7:30 on a sunny Saturday, Almalyn Akmad stands beside a waiting...
UNHCR urges governments to accelerate progress and resolve plight of world’s stateless
More action is needed to resolve the plight of millions around the world who are still without citizenship, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, urged today as it marked seven years since the launch of its #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness. “Significant progress has...
Rohingya refugees restore depleted forest in Bangladesh
Four years after swathes of forest in southern Bangladesh were cleared to make way for Rohingya refugees, projects to restore the ecosystem and “re-green” the camps are yielding results. By Regina De La Portilla in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh Mohammed Ali, 28, is a...
UNHCR begins airlifting aid to Kabul
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. A plane carrying winter relief from the UN Refugee Agency’s global stockpiles in Dubai...
Recovery and renewal: Supporting Venezuelan refugees and migrants as they rebuild their lives
The mass exodus of more than five million Venezuelans continues to be one of the largest displacement crises in the world—and the biggest in Latin America’s recent history. Violence, insecurity, shortages of food and medicine, and access to essential services have...
How UNHCR is Aiming Higher to support refugee scholars
While thousands of students across Canada have made the leap to college, university, trade school or vocational school this year, millions of deserving refugees won’t be as fortunate. Across the world, only three per cent of young refugees are enrolled in some form of...
Hardship and progress in the fight against COVID-19
The latest on UNHCR’s ongoing pandemic response. Significant progress has been made in recent months to improve access to COVID-19 vaccines for forcibly displaced people. But the damaging, lasting impact of the pandemic on the lives of refugees and internally...