Kerry holds Saudi talks ahead of Syria, Libya meetings.

Greek Asylum Service will start soon registration of asylum seekers residing in open reception facilities in the mainland with support by UNHCR and EASO

CAR: first day of tribute to the victims and displaced people due to the Central African crisis

RCA: première journée d’hommage aux victimes et déplacés de la crise centrafricaine

On 11 & 12 May, UNHCR in cooperation with The National Center for Judicial Studies conducted a two days’ workshop in Alexandria for 23 Egyptian judges and prosecutors from different governorates about International Protection of Refugees: Current Protection Gaps and Challenges. The purpose of this workshop is to identify gaps and challenges that face UNHCR and the government to find ways to overcome them in order to improve the assistance offered to refugees and asylum seekers in Egypt.

The UNHCR’s Award for Team Achievements in Gender Integration goes to the dedicated work in increasing the attention to the needs of women, girls, boys and men in the development of refugee programming in Jordan. The Jordan Refugee Inter-Sector Working Group has set up a cross-sectoral network called the Sector Gender Focal Point Network focusing on the promotion of gender equality. They developed a tool to monitor Gender Equality Measures in humanitarian projects within a pilot project.

In Juba, UNHCR conducted a two-day training for 66 officials from the Directorate of Nationality, Passports and Immigration on South Sudanese nationality laws.

A legal clinic that extends counselling to asylum seekers and refugees opened in Ankara.

2,155,618 persons identified in Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Gombe, Taraba, Yobe, Nasarawa, Plateau, Kaduna, Kano, Zamfara states and Abuja (DTM IX Apr 2016)

UNHCR, in collaboration with the Arab Women Organization, the League of Arab States and UN Women, are convening a conference in Cairo from today, 3rd May to 5th of May, on Refugee Women's Protection: "Current Responses and Future Prospects" in the Arab region.