News releases

News releases

Latest press releases and briefing notes

Syria. Lack of documentation poses extra risk to internally displaced people

Women in many countries face discrimination in registering children at birth warn UNHCR and UNICEF

7 July 2021

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Uganda. DAFI scholarships make refugee's university dreams a reality

Pathway to jobs in education for refugee graduates under new UNHCR and Teach For All partnership

7 July 2021

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Spain. Assistant High Commissioner for Protection is awared prestigious award

UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Gillian Triggs among laureates of inaugural Ruth Bader Ginsburg Medal of Honor

5 July 2021

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Ecuador. Supporting unaccompanied children in Quito

Data visualization brings to light COVID-19's threats to forcibly displaced women and children

5 July 2021

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Ecuador. Venezuelan refugee and migrant elders get the Covid-19 vaccine with UNHCR support

Refugee health challenges remain high amid COVID-19

1 July 2021

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USA. Refugee athlete Abbas Karimi trains with hopes of securing a place on the Tokyo 2020 Refugee Paralympic Team

IPC announces six athletes to compete for the Refugee Paralympic Team at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games

30 June 2021

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Slovenia. A Syrian family from Damascus was in the first group of asylum seekers relocated to Slovenia from Greece

News Comment by UNHCR EU Representative on launch of Slovenian Presidency of the European Union

30 June 2021

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El Salvador. Transgender activist wins UNHCR's Nansen Refugee Award for the Americas region

Global Roundtable charts joint action for protection of forcibly displaced LGBTIQ+ people

29 June 2021

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A UNHCR staff member speaks to internally displaced people in the street in Axum, in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

Statement attributable to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on the situation in Ethiopia's Tigray region

25 June 2021

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Ecuador. Venezuelan refugee and migrant elders get the Covid-19 vaccine with UNHCR support

UNHCR calls on states to remove barriers to access to COVID-19 vaccines for refugees

24 June 2021

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UN agencies welcome relocation of 4,000 asylum seekers and refugees from Greece

24 June 2021

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UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi meets Venezuelan entrepreneur Jazhilmar Baez at an event in Quito, Ecuador.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees praises Latin America for its commitment to the inclusion of all those in need of protection

23 June 2021

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High Commissioner Filippo Grandi during an interview on the border between Moldova and Ukraine