High Commissioner’s statement at the ECOSOC Special Meeting on Forced Displacement and Refugee Protection
As delivered by Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees at UN Headquarters in New York Thank you very much Ambassador Bob Rae, Mr. President, for these kind words. I am very touched. It’s not everyday that you meet diplomats who are as sensitive and aware to...
News comment: Two years on, Sudan is a catastrophe the world cannot afford to ignore
DONATE NOW This statement is attributable to Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Sudan is bleeding. Its people have been suffering for too long. Civilians are being bombed every day. Millions are trapped between conflict, neglect and the dilemma of...
Statement by UNHCR’s Filippo Grandi on the impact of global aid cuts on refugees
DONATE NOW By Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees GENEVA – Brutal funding cuts in the humanitarian sector are putting millions of lives at risk. The consequences for people fleeing danger will be immediate and devastating: Refugee women and girls at...
High Commissioner’s statement at the Brussels Syria Conference
By Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Thank you, Chair. Year after year I have stood in this very forum to advocate on behalf of the Syrian people – especially the millions of Syrians who, over 14 years, were forced to flee their homes: 13 million of...
News Comment: UNHCR’s Grandi urges world to remember Ukraine’s displaced and war-affected people
This statement is attributable to Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. As we mark three years of devastating war in Ukraine, millions of ordinary Ukrainians – one third of the current population – are in desperate need of humanitarian aid. Their plight...
Statement on Syria by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi
Syria is at a crossroads – between peace and war, stability and lawlessness, reconstruction or further ruin. After 14 years of conflict, recent developments bring hope that the suffering of the Syrian people may finally end, and that the world’s largest forced...
UNHCR High Commissioner’s statement to the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly
By Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Madam Chair, Distinguished delegates, We are living through a time of rapid change. A time of promise — only a few weeks ago, the Pact for the Future was adopted here in New York — but also a time of...
High Commissioner’s statement at the International Conference in Support of Lebanon’s People and Sovereignty, Paris
By Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees M. le Président de la République, M. le Président du Conseil des ministres, Permettez-moi de m’exprimer en anglais [Allow me to speak in English]. The disaster in Lebanon has multiple humanitarian consequences....