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‘Every action counts’, UNHCR says for World Refugee Day
The United Nations’ refugee agency is marking this year’s World Refugee Day with the message that “every action counts”, as it faces the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic and record…
Libya: UNHCR deeply concerned by shelling near Tripoli facility
Shelling near a major facility run by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Thursday, has sparked deep…
Land migration in Africa twice as deadly as Mediterranean, says UNHCR
While the Mediterranean Sea remains a deadly route for migrants attempting to reach the European Union, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)…
Tributes for ‘role model’ former UN refugee agency chief, Sadako Ogata
The first woman to serve as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, has died in Tokyo at the age of…
Venezuela exodus set to top 5 million
With roughly 5,000 people leaving the country each day, the exodus from Venezuela is expected to reach 5 million in the coming…
Aid agencies scramble to respond to civilian exodus in north-east Syria
With tens of thousands of people fleeing an air and ground offensive in northeast Syria that started last week, aid workers are…
UN refugee chief calls on EU to restore search-and-rescue operations.
On the sixth anniversary of a shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa that claimed at least 368 lives, UN High Commissioner for…
UNHCR warns more than half of world’s refugee children ‘do not get an education
Refugee children in their millions are missing out on an education, the UN said, in an appeal to host countries to back…
Renewed commitment to Mediterranean rescues encouraging, but ‘overriding priority’ must be ‘lasting peace’, say UN officials
The heads of the two key UN agencies championing refugees and migrants have called for an end to their “arbitrary detention” across…
African Union and UNHCR call for probe of Libya airstrike on detention center for migrants
The African Union condemned an airstrike that hit a detention center for migrants in the Libyan capital, killing at least 40 people.…