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  • During UNHCR’s annual Executive Committee, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, highlighted that maintaining levels of humanitarian aid is a comparatively inexpensive way to save lives and protect refugees and their host communities facing a “pandemic of poverty” resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
    highlight 05 Oct 2020 (4 years ago)
    / COVID - Refugees and asylum-seekers
  • In a key annual address to UNHCR’s annual Executive Committee meeting in Geneva, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Gillian Triggs, warned that COVID-19 is severely testing refugee protection.
    highlight 06 Oct 2020 (4 years ago)
    / COVID - Refugees and asylum-seekers
  • In a press release on the eve of the donor conference for Rohingya refugees, UNHCR called for solidarity, support and solutions for this stateless and displaced population as the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has added layers of new challenges and needs to an already complex and massive refugee emergency.
    highlight 20 Oct 2020 (4 years ago)
    / COVID - Refugees and asylum-seekers
  • After a seven-month suspension due to COVID-19, UNHCR's life-saving flights from Libya have resumed. A group of 153 vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers have been evacuated from Libya to the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM) in Niger.
    highlight 16 Oct 2020 (4 years ago)
    / COVID - Refugees and asylum-seekers
  • As countries all over the world battle a second wave of the pandemic, UNHCR is highlighting with a new data visualization tool how acutely vulnerable forcibly displaced populations must contend with extreme overcrowding and limited access to basics such as soap and water. [Link to the data visualization tool: https://arcg.is/ObLOL]
    highlight 30 Oct 2020 (4 years ago)
    / COVID - Refugees and asylum-seekers
  • During the opening of a virtual session of UNHCR’s annual High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection challenges, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Gillian Triggs, underlined the importance of inclusion for the protection of refugees and their hosts in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
    highlight 04 Nov 2020 (4 years ago)
    / COVID - Refugees and asylum-seekers
  • In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UNHCR has helped hundreds of refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) to return home in recent days – the first such move since the COVID-19 pandemic forced border closures.
    highlight 16 Nov 2020 (4 years ago)
    / COVID - Refugees and asylum-seekers
  • In a press release UNHCR warns that the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is driving further violence against refugee, displaced and stateless women and girls. The UNHCR-led Global Protection Cluster reported increases in gender-based violence in at least 27 countries. UNHCR is also alarmed by increased risks of child and forced marriages being resorted to as a coping strategy by displaced families buckling under socio-economic pressures.
    highlight 25 Nov 2020 (4 years ago)
    / COVID - Refugees and asylum-seekers
  • UNHCR warns that child trafficking, forced labour and forced recruitment by armed groups are increasing in Mali due to conflict, insecurity, COVID-19 and deteriorating economic conditions.
    highlight 01 Dec 2020 (4 years ago)
    / COVID - Refugees and asylum-seekers
  • A new report released by the Norwegian Refugee Council and UNHCR-led Global Protection Cluster (GPC) finds that nearly 40 million people are at heightened risk of violence, discrimination and rights abuses as COVID-19 spawns a ‘coping crisis’.
    highlight 30 Nov 2020 (4 years ago)
    / COVID - Refugees and asylum-seekers