The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi and the Director General of the United Nations Migration Agency, IOM, William Lacy Swing appealed for greater support from the international community to the countries and communities in the region receiving a growing number of refugees and migran...

On September 24, the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) presented to the authorities of Argentina a joint report with the results of the Protection Monitoring carried out by UNHCR and of the Displacement Monitoring Matrix (DTM)...

São Paulo – Almost four thousand refugee and migrant children up to 8 years old and enrolled in the Municipal Education System of São Paulo have begun receiving the educational materials, “Learning Paths,” in several languages. The objective is to ensure greater inclusion of this population that...

Education programs and discussions are being held over the long-term development of cooperatives (co-ops), which have been providing loans to small-scale farmers and citizens, said U Myo Aung, director of Cooperatives Department under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation. The C...

Villagers in the Northern District of Karen State on the Thai-Burma border gathered along the Salween River for the International Day of Action for Rivers and Against Dams. On March 14, the Karen River Network organized event to call for “No Dams” near the Ei Tu Hta internally displaced peoples’ ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the actions of the past days by several European countries to collectively end a standoff on the Mediterranean involving some 450 refugees and migrants who had been stranded at sea amid a battle over disembarkation. Since Saturday the governments of France, ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and IOM, as the International Organization for Migration, with the support of other UN Agencies, continue to work together with the Government of Brazil to promote the relocation of Venezuelans from the north to other cities in the country.