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Quinta Ola started as a way of giving teenage girls in Peru a greater say in society and their futures. Now it’s doing the same for refugee and migrant girls from Venezuela.
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Donors today pledged more than USD 210 million and mobilised political and technical resources to address the needs of forcibly displaced people and the communities that host them.
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is continuing to support the government-led relief efforts in flood-hit parts of Pakistan, where the situation remains dire. Authorities and humanitarian agencies are racing…
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has today released new guidance on the eligibility for refugee status of Somalis fleeing their country. The guidance aims to assist those adjudicating international protection claims…
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After a 12-year legal battle, a young man from North Macedonia has finally received a nationality and can start building the life he always dreamed of.
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László Helmeczi was used to dealing with the routine concerns of a few thousand residents, until he found himself on the frontline of an international humanitarian crisis.
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A refugee scholar living in Uganda talks about the importance of working together to keep children in school, where they can be safe, happy and fulfilled.
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DAMASCUS, Syria – UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, urged much more support to address the staggering humanitarian needs in Syria after a visit to the country that ended today. Grandi’s…
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NEW YORK – Seven-time Formula 1 world champion Sir Lewis Hamilton is backing calls for all refugee children and youth to be given access to a full quality education, as a new report from UNHCR, the UN…
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Faced with an influx of refugees from Sudan to eastern Chad, UNHCR and its partners are providing vital support for the education of refugee children.
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Amid surging humanitarian needs for 96,000 refugees who have fled to Uganda
so far this year, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and partners urgently
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UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador hopes the dramatic new film of her and her sister’s escape from conflict to new lives in Europe will challenge attitudes towards refugees.
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The following is UNHCR’s response to inquiries on a tweet recently issued by its Special Envoy for the Western & Central Mediterranean situation, Vincent Cochetel. UNHCR extends its deepest condolences…
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GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is scaling up support in Pakistan, where torrential monsoon rains and floods have now affected more than 33 million people, causing widespread destruction and damage…
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Somalia has reached a tipping point. The lives of hundreds of thousands of people are at immediate risk, according to the latest food security and nutrition analysis. Famine is unfolding in two areas in…
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Afghan refugees are among the 33 million people in Pakistan affected by torrential rains and flooding.
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Ensuring hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainian refugees have access to education presents a huge challenge for host countries like Poland.
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GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is mobilizing resources and staff
to scale up its assistance in Pakistan to support local communities and
refugees in areas devastated by the catastrophic floods.Our…
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GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today urged support for a massive
scale-up in emergency relief for millions of people in Pakistan hit by
monsoon floods that have already killed more than 1,000 people.Over…
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High Commissioner urges more donor support for solutions and praises progress in refugee protection in Tanzania.
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Five years after a Pulitzer-Prize winning photo made him the face of the Rohingya refugee crisis, a young refugee has taken up a camera himself.
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Five years after 700,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh, and a decade after intercommunal violence rocked Rakhine State, those who remain live in a state of limbo.
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This week marks five years since more than 700,000 Rohingya women, men and children fled Myanmar for Bangladesh, joining hundreds of thousands of other Rohingya who had sought and found refuge in the country…
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Bassel arrived in Belgium without his constant companion Stella, but through the warmth of strangers they were reunited.
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On World Humanitarian Day, we talked to three colleagues whose own experience of being forced to flee their homes inspires and informs their work.
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The former refugee and Los Angeles Lakers’ power forward returned to his home country for the first time with a message of hope for those displaced by floods and conflict.
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Over the past year, parts of Afghanistan have become safer, but the country is in the grip of a humanitarian crisis.
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Many of the nearly 100 vendors at the Queens Night Market have refugee backgrounds.
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With its message of peace, love and humanity, ‘Refugees’ is also a call to action.
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After deadly attacks left much of rural Nalyvaikivka in ruins, UNHCR is helping local families with temporary housing and construction materials as they look to rebuild.