News releases

News releases

Latest press releases and briefing notes

Ethiopia. UNHCR responds to huge displacement with lifesaving aid

UNHCR welcomes Ethiopia's ratification of Kampala Convention

14 February 2020

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Nigeria. UNHCR launches appeal for Cameroonian Anglophone refugees

More Cameroonian refugees flee to Nigeria, bringing total arrivals close to 60,000 mark

13 February 2020

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Iraq. UNHCR provides aid and shelter to refugees fleeing north-east Syria

More resettlement needed as only 4.5 per cent of global resettlement needs met in 2019

5 February 2020

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Burkina Faso. High Commissioner meets IDPs hosted by local community.

UNHCR stepping up response to escalating violence and displacement in the Sahel region

4 February 2020

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UNHCR to suspend operations at GDF in Tripoli amid safety concerns

30 January 2020

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Tajikistan. Tackling statelessness

UNHCR welcomes Tajikistan's new law tackling statelessness

30 January 2020

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Raouf Mazou appointed UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner for Operations

24 January 2020

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UNHCR is deeply saddened by the deaths of two Eritrean asylum-seekers in Tripoli, Libya

10 January 2020

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Switzerland.UN Refugee Agency honoured with Olympic Cup for sporting contribution

UN Refugee Agency honoured with Olympic Cup for sporting contribution

10 January 2020

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Germany. Somali asylum-seeker joins local fire brigade

UNHCR issues recommendations for EU to make 2020 year of change for refugee protection

9 January 2020

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Switzerland. We Belong - Global Faces of Statelessness - TIFF files

North Macedonia accedes to key statelessness treaty

7 January 2020

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Libya. Refugees freed from detention are evacuated from Tripoli conflict zone

News comment by UNHCR's Chief of Mission for Libya, Jean-Paul Cavalieri, about shelling close to Gathering and Departure Facility in Tripoli

2 January 2020

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Malaysia. Vietnamese Boat People

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