La responsable au bureau du Haut- commissariat des nations unies aux réfugiés (HCR-Tunisie) Néjia Hafsa a déclaré que « Le nombre des réfugiés et demandeurs d’asile en Tunisie a connu une augmentation soit 6500 personnes jusqu’ au mois de janvier 2021, contre 6200 personnes en 2019, signalant que 19...
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Tunisia Press Agency (TAP),
24 Mar 2020 (3 years ago )
(TAP) - The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that health and preventive measures have been taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in accommodation centres for refugees and asylum seekers in Tunisia.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, are deeply saddened by the latest loss of life in the Central Mediterranean, after two boats capsized off Tunisia’s shores on Tuesday, 9 March.
Receiving, Friday, August 11, 2023, the UN official, the Minister stressed the need to ensure as much as possible to ensure close coordination between the UN structures in Tunisia and the official bodies of the Tunisian State. This ad hoc coordination will target two key issues, the migration issue ...
National human rights organisations published a guide to coordinate actions to protect refugees and asylum seekers in Tunisia. This guide, which was signed by these organisations at a ceremony held Wednesday at the headquarters of the Arab Institute for Human Rights (AIHR), serves as a reference doc...
La municipalité de Raoued, en partenariat avec l’Agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR), l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (IOM) et l’Institut arabe des droits de l’homme (IADH), ouvre un bureau pour la réception et l’orientation des réfugiés, demandeurs d’asile, migrants e...
A request was sent to the health ministry last January to vaccinate 700 refugees and asylum seekers against the coronavirus, Naoufel Tounsi, Officer in Charge of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Office in Zarzis Naoufel Tounsi said Wednesday.
(TAP) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Tunisia is launching from Tuesday an awareness campaign to encourage refugees and asylum seekers in Tunisia to register on the “evax” vaccination platform, in co-operation with the Tunisian Council for Refugees, said Associate Prot...
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UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency,
21 Jun 2019 (4 years ago )
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...