Conflicts push internal displacement to record high
IDMC study finds more people than ever displaced by violence inside their own countries, but a “wind of change” means there is a greater willingness to tackle the issue.
Coronavirus: UNHCR offers practical recommendations in support of European countries to ensure access to asylum and safe reception
Ελληνικά With the world mobilizing to combat the spread of COVID-19, many countries in Europe and beyond have adopted exceptional measures to manage their borders, limiting air travel and cross-border mobility. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has called today on European countries to safeguard the many good practices and redouble […]
Asmir Begović and Alphonso Davies compete online to aid coronavirus response
The two football stars, both former refugees, will go head to head in eFootball PES2020 contest for UNHCR’s COVID-19 appeal.
Beware long-term damage to human rights and refugee rights from the coronavirus pandemic: UNHCR
Ελληνικά The coronavirus pandemic has deepened the plight of people fleeing war, conflict and persecution. As countries battle to protect their populations and economies, fundamental norms of refugee and human rights law are at risk. “The core principles of refugee protection are being put to test – but people who […]
Call for Proposals: Inter-Agency Community Outreach and Communications Fund on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA)
The Inter-Agency Community Outreach and Communications Fund on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) aims to provide rapid, targeted financial support to NGOs that lack the resources and/or capacity to develop and disseminate PSEA outreach and communications materials, and to make available to all Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) members and the […]
Displaced and stateless women and girls at heightened risk of gender-based violence in the coronavirus pandemic
Around the world COVID-19 is taking lives and changing communities but the virus is also inducing massive protection risks for women and girls forced to flee their homes, the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Gillian Triggs, warned today. “We need to pay urgent attention […]