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  • UNHCR seeking 1,300 urgent resettlement places for vulnerable refugees in Libya

    news UNHCR, 11 Dec 2017 (6 years ago )
    UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, launched today an urgent appeal calling for 1,300 resettlement places to be made available by the end of March 2018 for highly vulnerable refugees stranded in Libya. “This is a desperate call for solidarity and humanity. We need to get extremely vulnerable refugees out...
  • Situation on Greek islands still grim despite speeded transfers

    news UNHCR, 22 Dec 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. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, remains very concerned at the situation of refugees and migrants on the Greek Aegean islan...
  • Over 1,000 refugees evacuated out of Libya by UNHCR

    news UNHCR, 15 Feb 2018 (6 years ago )
    Since November, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has evacuated over 1,000 highly vulnerable refugees out of Libya and is looking for durable solutions for them in third countries. On Tuesday, a flight departed from Tripoli bound for, Niamey, Niger, carrying 128 refugees and on Wednesday, a second plane...
  • Refugee chefs serve up success at food festival

    news UNHCR, 31 May 2018 (5 years ago )
    GENEVA, Switzerland – The third Refugee Food Festival is coming to 14 cities around the world in June, bringing locals and refugee chefs together to share food and friendship. First launched in Paris in 2016, this year’s festival will see over 100 restaurants in cities including New York, Amsterd...
  • Solidarity and integration on display at ‘No Stranger Place’ exhibition in Paris

    news UNHCR, 11 Jun 2018 (5 years ago )
    PARIS, France – After fleeing persecution for being gay in his native Mali, Louis found the moral support and understanding he long sought with Armand and Christophe, a couple who kindly agreed to host him in their Parisian flat. Armand and Christophe are among many ordinary citizens across Europ...
  • Mediterranean crossings deadlier than ever, new UNHCR report shows

    news Desperate Journeys report, 03 Sep 2018 (5 years ago )
    A new report by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency shows that crossing the Mediterranean Sea has become even more deadly. UNHCR’s new Desperate Journeys report shows that more than 1,600 people have died or gone missing while attempting to reach Europe so far this year.
  • Ending Statelessness in South Eastern Europe

    news UNHCR, 25 May 2018 (5 years ago )
    As part of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) global #IBELONG Campaign to end statelessness in the world by 2024, the UNHCR Regional Representation for South Eastern Europe has produced a brochure about the situation of persons at risk of becoming stateless in this region. ...
  • Hungary’s coerced removal of Afghan families deeply shocking

    news UNHCR, 08 May 2019 (4 years ago )
    Hungary’s actions overnight to force two asylum-seeking Afghan families to leave the country under duress is deeply shocking and a flagrant violation of international and EU law, the UN Refugee Agency said today. The two families, four adults and seven children, who had been detained since Januar...
  • Act now to alleviate suffering at reception centres on Greek islands - UNHCR’s Grandi

    news UNHCR, 21 Feb 2020 (4 years ago )
    UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi today called for urgent action to address the increasingly desperate situation of refugees and migrants in reception centres in the Aegean islands. Conditions in facilities on Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Kos and Leros are woefully inadequate, and have co...
  • Displaced and stateless women and girls at heightened risk of gender-based violence in the Coronavirus pandemic

    news UNHCR, 20 Apr 2020 (3 years ago )
    Around the world COVID-19 is taking lives and changing communities but the virus is also inducing massive protection risks for women and girls forced to flee their homes, the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Gillian Triggs, warned today. “We need to pay ur...