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...
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi’s message on World Refugee Day – 20 June 2021
Ελληνικά Two days ago, we announced that an unprecedented number of people have been forced to flee their homes. More than 82.4 million men, women and children have had their worlds turned upside down by war, violence and persecution. While the rest of us spent much...