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Refugee chefs serve up success at food festival
news UNHCR, 31 May 2018 (6 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... -
UNHCR appeals to Greece over situation at Evros
news UNHCR, 27 Apr 2018 (6 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling on the Greek Government to urgently improve conditions and expand reception capacity, following a recent rise in arrivals at Evros via the land border with Turkey. Hundreds of people are at present being held in police detention facilities. Some 2,900 peop... -
UNHCR urges Hungary to withdraw draft law impacting refugees
news UNHCR, 29 May 2018 (6 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling on the Government of Hungary to withdraw a package of laws set to be introduced in the Hungarian Parliament that would significantly restrict the ability of NGOs and individuals to support asylum-seekers and refugees. UNHCR is seriously concerned that these p... -
Refugees and music students strike a chord in Vienna
news UNHCR, 25 May 2018 (6 years ago )VIENNA, Austria - On a Saturday night at the Schwarzberg music pub, the crowd is going wild. Refugees are jamming with music students who have been teaching the newcomers how to play their instruments. Milad Osman, 23, from Afghanistan, is playing a short piano solo on the stage, even though he h... -
UNHCR and OECD launch action plan to boost refugee employment
news UNHCR, 24 Apr 2018 (6 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, is launching today an innovative action plan to expand employment opportunities for refugees. The document not only identifies the challenges, opportunities and best practices in the integratio... -
Fewer refugees arriving in Greece’s Evros region, but problems remain
news UNHCR, 12 Jun 2018 (6 years ago )PYTHIO VILLAGE, Greece – As dawn breaks over Greece’s north-eastern Evros region, a group of three families with adults and children tramp through Pythio and Thourio, small villages on a country backroad. “We’ve been travelling for three days directly from Kobani,” [on the Syrian border with Turk... -
Solidarity and integration on display at ‘No Stranger Place’ exhibition in Paris
news UNHCR, 11 Jun 2018 (6 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... -
IOM, UNHCR appeal for region-wide action by EU countries over Mediterranean tragedies
news UNHCR, 27 Jun 2018 (6 years ago )Concerned with the ongoing human tragedy in which almost 1,000 refugees and migrants have perished while being smuggled across the Mediterranean this year, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and IOM, the UN Migration Agency, are today appealing to European Union countries for concerted, region-wide actio... -
UNHCR calls on Austria EU Presidency to lead and unite EU countries towards a fair and functioning asylum system
news UNHCR, 02 Jul 2018 (6 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today released its recommendations to the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU). UNHCR is urging the Austrian Presidency to lead and unite EU Member States to deliver coherent and common European asylum policies that ensure access to territory an... -
UNHCR calls on Europe to stand by humanitarian principles, receive rescued Diciotti passengers
news UNHCR, 25 Aug 2018 (6 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is appealing to European Union member States urgently to offer relocation places to some 150 rescued persons who remain on board the Italian coast guard vessel ‘Diciotti’. In the meantime, UNHCR urges Italian authorities to allow the immediate disembarkation of those on ...