UNHCR warns rising tide of hunger, insecurity, and underfunding worsening gender-based violence risks
Ελληνικά Worsening socio-economic conditions, new and ongoing conflicts and humanitarian funding shortfalls are increasing the risk of gender-based violence for forcibly displaced women and girls, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning today. “A toxic mix of crises...
UNHCR’s Grandi calls on EU to put safety and solidarity at the heart of the response in the Mediterranean
Statement attributed to UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi
UN Refugee Agency calls for ban on forced returns of asylum-seekers to eastern DR Congo
This is a summary of what was said by Elizabeth Tan, UNHCR’s Director of International Protection – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Displaced people from climate frontlines raise their voices at COP27
At this year’s climate summit, displaced people warned that their attempts to adapt to the changing climate are being overwhelmed by repeated extreme weather events.
UN Refugee Agency warns of extreme hardship for forcibly displaced families this winter
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Olga Sarrado – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
UNHCR and IOM appeal for urgent disembarkation of all stranded refugees and migrants in central Mediterranean
GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), continue to urge European governments to swiftly offer a place of safety and allow the immediate disembarkation of nearly 600 people who remain on NGO vessels after...