Turkish and Syrian youth came together at an event named “Music without Borders” jointly organized by UNHCR, UNV and Keçiören Municipality in Ankara.

Turkish and Syrian youth came together at an event named “Music without Borders” jointly organized by UNHCR, UNV and Keçiören Municipality in Ankara.

UNHCR has just completed the first phase of Rohingya refugee family counting, where more than half a million refugees from Myanmar have so far been counted. Going from shelter to shelter, more than 100 UNHCR-hired enumerators have so far gathered data on more than 120,000 families. In the innovative and revealing family counting exercise, UNHCR teams found that one-third of the families are vulnerable.

Scholarship holders received certificates presented by the UNHCR Representative in Turkey and the YTB Vice President during the workshop in Ankara.

Scholarship holders received certificates presented by the UNHCR Representative in Turkey and the YTB Vice President during the workshop in Ankara.

Scholarship holders received certificates presented by the UNHCR Representative in Turkey and the YTB Vice President during the workshop in Ankara.

CAR: The Head of the UN Mission in CAR, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, briefed the Security Council on 6 November, stressing that the security situation in the country remains volatile and the humanitarian situation disastrous.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the World Bank signed a data sharing agreement. This will strengthen existing data collection processes and enhance technical capacity for a comprehensive analysis of the return process and how best to support the reintegration of returnees over time.

Turkish version of the “Searching for Syria” website was launched in cooperation with Google.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply saddened by reports of a new shipwreck in the Bay of Bengal this morning in which at least four Rohingya refugees died when their boat capsized close to the southern Bangladesh shore. Others who were injured have been taken to local hospitals for immediate treatment.