Grandi urges boost for multilateralism to tackle record displacement
UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi calls on states to work more closely to find solutions for refugees; highlights the global compact on refugees as a way to translate asylum into concrete responses.
South Sudanese surgeon ‘humbled’ to receive 2018 Nansen Award
Dr. Evan Atar Adaha runs the only working hospital in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State, where he treats people forced to flee conflict and persecution.
UNHCR warns over Mediterranean rescue capacity
Ελληνικά UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is grateful to Malta for its decision to allow 58 rescued people from the NGO ship Aquarius to be disembarked, ending their ordeal after days at sea. We are also grateful to France, Germany, Portugal and Spain who have offered to receive these people […]
UNHCR saddened at suicide of an asylum-seeker in Cyprus
UNHCR is deeply saddened at the news of a young asylum-seeker committing suicide in Cyprus. Based on the information provided by local NGOs and refugee community members, an asylum-seeker of African descent hanged himself in his room, a windowless basement of a building. According to the same sources, the deceased […]
Refugees in Pafos entirely reliant on charity groups and community support to cover all their needs
Ελληνικά The UNHCR Office in Cyprus joined its new Refugee Outreach Volunteers (ROVs) last week to meet with a group of refugees in Pafos in order to hear their grievances regarding their living conditions and future prospects in Cyprus. Four families from war-torn Aleppo, Homs, Idlib and Darra in Syria joined […]
Mediterranean crossings deadlier than ever, new UNHCR report shows
Ελληνικά Three years on from the shocking images of lifeless Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi on a Turkish beach, a new report by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency shows that crossing the Mediterranean Sea has become even more deadly. UNHCR’s new Desperate Journeys report shows that more than 1,600 people have […]