The 1951 Refugee Convention: 70 years of life-saving protection
Ελληνικά Today marks the 70th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention, a key international treaty establishing the rights of people forced to flee. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says that recommitting to its spirit and fundamental principles is more urgent today...
UNHCR urges states to protect refugees’ rights, not to instrumentalize their plight
Ελληνικά UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is increasingly concerned by the instrumentalization of refugees and migrants by states apparently to achieve political ends. People are not, and should never be, pawns in geopolitical games. When states encourage population...
UNHCR calls on states to remove barriers to access to COVID-19 vaccines for refugees
Ελληνικά Four months since the first delivery of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility, the global initiative to ensure the vaccines’ equitable distribution, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, calls on States to expedite the roll-out of vaccination campaigns and remove...
UNHCR warns of imminent humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
UN Refugee Agency releases 2022 resettlement needs
1.47 million refugees will be in need of resettlement next year. This is according to the latest estimates released by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in its Projected Global Resettlement Needs 2022 report issued today. “Despite the pandemic, wars and conflict continue...
Angelina Jolie marks World Refugee Day with refugees in Burkina Faso
The Special Envoy for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Angelina Jolie, is in Burkina Faso for World Refugee Day to bring attention to the fastest growing emergency in the world today. Displacement doubled in the last year alone. Burkina Faso is acutely affected by the...