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  • Three hours too late

    news UNHCR, 04 Apr 2016 (7 years ago )
    LESVOS, Greece, April 4 (UNHCR) – It was in the early hours of a March morning when Monzir's rubber dinghy bumped against the shores of Lesvos, but it was already too late. At midnight that day (March 20), the status of arrivals like Monzir, who have fled war and spent their life savings to chanc...
  • Joint press release: The registration of asylum seekers residing in open reception facilities in the mainland will begin in the next few wee...

    news UNHCR / Greek Asylum Service / EASO, 14 May 2016 (7 years ago )
    Athens, 14/05/2016 The Asylum Service will conduct a pre-registration exercise for international protection in the mainland from end of May to end of July with the financial support of the European Commission (DG Home). The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the European As...
  • UN Refugee Agency training to strengthen coordination in Greece response

    news UNHCR, 16 May 2016 (7 years ago )
    The UN Refugee Agency kicked off a series of training workshops this week in Greece to provide additional tools on how to strengthen coordination among many partners. This will help ensure their collective efforts in support of national and local authorities deliver improved living conditions for th...
  • Update on two shipwrecks in the Central Mediterranean

    news UNHCR, 09 May 2017 (6 years ago )
    This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Cécile Pouilly – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. In the last 24 hours we have received alarming information on two new shipwrecks in the Central Mediterranean. The first ...
  • High Commissioner Grandi urges more solidarity with Italy

    news UNHCR, 01 Jul 2017 (6 years ago )
    “What is happening in front of our eyes in Italy is an unfolding tragedy. In the course of last weekend, 12,600 migrants and refugees arrived on its shores, and an estimated 2,030 have lost their lives in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year. Let me stress that saving lives remains a t...
  • Europe: new Roadmap to improve the situation of unaccompanied and separated refugee and migrant children

    news UNHCR - UNICEF - IRC, 10 Jul 2017 (6 years ago )
    UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, UNICEF, and IRC, the International Rescue Committee, today issued a Roadmap for action to improve the situation of refugee and migrant children arriving and staying in Europe without their parents or care givers. The Roadmap highlights the need to identify children, re...
  • UNHCR steps up efforts towards alternatives to detention in Libya and solutions for vulnerable refugees

    news UNHCR, 12 Sep 2017 (6 years ago )
    Libya remains one of the most complex mixed migration situations in the world, with refugees traveling alongside migrants through perilous routes, surviving dangerous desert crossings and abuses that include sexual violence, torture, detention in inhumane conditions and abductions for ransom. All th...
  • UNHCR’s Volker Turk warns of threats to global asylum environment in key address

    news UNHCR, 05 Oct 2017 (6 years ago )
    Violations of international refugee law, such as attacks by troops and families being driven back across borders, jeopardized the safety of people fleeing for their lives in 2017, UNHCR’s international protection chief said today. In a key annual address to the UN Refugee Agency’s annual Executive ...
  • UNHCR chief exhorts France to promote solidarity towards refugees in Europe

    news UNHCR, 10 Oct 2017 (6 years ago )
    PARIS – UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said on Monday that France has a leading role to play in resettling refugees and managing migration flows in Europe. During a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, Grandi added that the UNHCR supports France in its efforts to “lead E...
  • UNHCR welcomes Libya’s transit facility to expedite third country solutions for vulnerable refugees

    news UNHCR, 29 Nov 2017 (6 years ago )
    UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the decision by the Libyan authorities to set up a “transit and departure facility” in Tripoli for people in need of international protection. This initiative, which is supported by the Italian government, will facilitate the transfer of thousands of vulnerabl...