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‘They took away my biggest gift in life – my family’
news UNHCR, 07 Apr 2021 (3 years ago )As thousands flee non-state armed groups attacks in northern Mozambique, urgent resources are needed to support them and the communities hosting them. -
Without documents, women at high risk of gender-based violence – UNHCR, 15 December 2021
news UNHCR, 15 Dec 2021 (2 years ago )UNHCR is advocating for women and girls in South Africa to acquire identity documents which can help reduce the risk of statelessness, and physical and psychological abuse. -
UNHCR urges governments to accelerate progress and resolve plight of world’s stateless – UNHCR, 04 November 2021
news UNHCR, 04 Nov 2021 (2 years ago )More action is needed to resolve the plight of millions around the world who are still without citizenship, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, urged today as it marked seven years since the launch of its #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness. -
UNHCR restarts operation to help return of refugees from the Central African Republic – UNHCR, 26 October 2021
news UNHCR, 26 Oct 2021 (2 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has restarted an operation to help thousands of people who fled as refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), return voluntarily to their home country. -
UNHCR raises alarm over Mozambique’s “invisible” crisis as climate shocks worsen displacement – UNHCR, 10 May
news UNHCR, 11 May 2022 (2 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is gravely concerned about the ongoing violence and insecurity in northern Mozambique. Conflict and displacement, compounded by extreme weather events has led to surging protection needs – physical, material, and legal – for hundreds of thousands of affected refugees, i... -
UNHCR deeply concerned by renewed violence displacing thousands in North Kivu, DR Congo – UNHCR, 27 May 2022
news UNHCR, 27 May 2022 (2 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned about the urgent and large-scale needs of more than 72,000 people who have been displaced by fighting in recent days in North Kivu Province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Since 19 May, intense fighting has shaken Rutshuru and Nyirag... -
UNHCR condemns deadly attack on displaced people in DR Congo – UNHCR, 21 March 2022
news UNHCR, 21 Mar 2022 (2 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, condemns in the strongest terms the most recent attack against displaced people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which took place on 19 March in the village of Gudda, Ituri Province. -
UNHCR concerned by conflict’s toll on hundreds of thousands displaced in eastern DR Congo – 10 March 2023
news UNHCR, 10 Mar 2023 (1 year ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is greatly alarmed as violent clashes between non-state armed groups and government forces drive hundreds of thousands to flee their homes in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In February alone, nearly 300,000 people fled across Rutshuru and Masisi territo... -
UNHCR calls for concerted action as forced displacement hits new record in 2022 - 14 June
news UNHCR, 16 Jun 2023 (1 year ago )The full-scale war in Ukraine, alongside conflict elsewhere and climate-driven upheaval meant more people than ever remained uprooted from their homes last year, heightening the urgency for immediate, collective action to alleviate the causes and impact of displacement, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency,... -
UNHCR appalled by killings of dozens of displaced people by armed groups in eastern DRC
news UNHCR, 30 Nov 2021 (2 years ago )This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is appalled by a series of deadly attacks by armed groups on displaced people in eastern...