Faced with continued violence in Syria and a growing refugee influx into the region, UNHCR and its partners today warned of grave risks if funding gaps are not closed and mounting refugee needs are not met. In an updated 2014 Syria Regional Response Plan (RRP6) being formally presented in Geneva ...

U Nan Ri, from the committee member of Kayan culture and literature voiced that salary for Kayan language teachers need to be solved out by the Govnt support to the teachers who’re now teaching in the government schools. “We have started teaching since 2013-2014 school years. The Govrnt said tha...

Myanmar is planning to allow visa free for tourists from Japan and South Korea with a one-year trial period starting from October 1 and Chinese tourists including Hong Kong and Macao can visit Myanmar with visa on arrival in the same period, according to Ministry of Hotel and Tourism. “It should ...

YANGON — Researchers funded by the Joint Peace Fund, a consortium of mostly western donors, have recommended that the Myanmar government and aid providers support existing services run by ethnic armed groups, ranging from schools to land titling, as a means of building “federalism from below”. A ...

Karen community groups have for the first time have called on the Karen National Union to show more transparency and openness in their ongoing peace talks with the Burma government. Six Karen civil society groups based in Burma and overseas made their call for the meetings between the KNU and gov...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, urges for calm following an incident that took place yesterday, Thursday 20 June, at the Ibn Khaldun refugee shelter in Medenine, Tunisia. According to the information we have been able to collect so far, a group of refugees and asylum-seekers launched a demonstratio...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned about the increasing number of refugees fleeing into Armenia in recent days. UNHCR is calling for the protection of civilians and full respect of international humanitarian and refugee law. As of this afternoon, the Government of the Republic...

GENEVA, July 22 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency and its partners today appealed for greater donor support to cope with the continuing outflow and deteriorating condition of refugees from the Central African Republic. On Tuesday UNHCR together with 16 other humanitarian agencies revised the Region...

Since 2015, more than two million Venezuelans have left their country and some 250,000 Venezuelans have remained in Ecuador. In 2018, for the first time the number of Venezuelan asylum seekers, at nearly 7,000, is higher than Colombians, at 3,800. “This humanitarian crisis cannot be addressed in an ...