NAIROBI, 4 May 2015 (UNHCR) – US Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry, visited UNHCR Representation Office in Kenya, accompanied by a delegation of senior officials from the US Government. Mr. Kerry expressed his utmost appreciation and respect for the work done by UNHCR in Kenya. The Represe...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Le Haut-commissaire assistant du Haut-commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (UNHCR) chargé de la protection, Volker Türk, vient de séjourner au Congo, où il rencontré les autorités pour parler essentiellement de l'intégration locale des réfugiés, annonce mardi ...

Budapest – UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called on Hungary to improve access for people seeking asylum and to do away with its so-called border “transit zones,” which he said are in effect detention centres. In Budapest, he met Minister of Foreign Affairs Péter Szijjártó and In...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 20 November 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. In the last couple of days, we have witnessed Governments instituting a range of restrictions against ...

Mali - Internal displacement in Mali can be resolved by the end of 2017, but only if there is no resurgence of communal violence or armed conflict. IOM is calling on all groups in Mali to help foster a stability and peace to avoid further displacement and encourage the return home of those still dis...

Concerned with the ongoing human tragedy in which almost 1,000 refugees and migrants have perished while being smuggled across the Mediterranean this year, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and IOM, the UN Migration Agency, are today appealing to European Union countries for concerted, region-wide actio...

တၢ်တဲသကိး၀ဲ တၢ်ကမၤတၢ်ကူၣ်ဘၣ်ကူသ့အတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤ လၢတၢ်ကဒုးအိၣ်ထီၣ်တၢ်မၤသကိးတၢ်ဖံးတၢ်မၤ cooperatives (co-ops) လၢအယံာ်အထၢ, လၢအဒုးလိၢ်စ့လၢပှၤမၤစံာ်ဖိလၢအဆံး ဒီးထံဖိကီၢ်ဖိတဖၣ်, အဂ့ၢ် အူမၠိ အီၣ်လၢအ မ့ၢ်ပှၤနဲၣ်တၢ်လၢ တၢ်မၤသကိးတၢ်၀ဲၤကျိၤ လၢအအိၣ်လၢသူၣ်ဖျး, ဘုၣ်ဖီၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်ထံကိတိာ်အဖီလာ် န့ၣ်လီၤ. တၢ်မၤသကိ...