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UNHCR: Urgent steps needed now to mitigate climate impact on displaced people
7 Nov 2021There is now a clear link between climate-related emergencies and forced displacement, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said today, imploring leaders to change words to action and step up support for people forced to flee, and their hosts, to avert and mitigate loss and damage in the most vulnerable regions. […]
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Volunteers boost Sama Bajau birth registration amid pandemic
4 Nov 2021Since 2019, a community outreach programme has registered 900 of the indigenous seafarers in the Philippines who were at risk of statelessness.
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UNHCR begins airlifting aid to Kabul
2 Nov 2021This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
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UNHCR welcomes steps to ease movement at Pakistan-Afghanistan border
26 Oct 2021This 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.
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‘I can look for a job and educate my children’
22 Oct 2021UNHCR is helping thousands of displaced Mozambicans get identification documents, making it easier for them to access formal jobs and vital services.
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South Sudan floods wreak havoc on vulnerable communities
19 Oct 2021This is a summary of what was said by Arafat Jamal UNHCR Representative in South Sudan and ad interim UN Resident and UN Humanitarian Coordinator – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
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UNHCR’s Grandi urges increase in the scope of humanitarian assistance in Syria, including to people returning from displacement
18 Oct 2021DAMASCUS, Syria – UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi reaffirmed UNHCR’s support to the most vulnerable in Syria and urged an increase in the scope of humanitarian assistance in the country, including to people who have chosen to return home following years of displacement inside their own country or […]
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi urges support for crisis-hit Lebanon
15 Oct 2021BEIRUT, Lebanon – At the end of a two-day visit to Lebanon, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi urged the international community to scale up its support to the Lebanese people and the refugees they host. “I am visiting Lebanon during a very difficult moment,” Grandi said. “The Lebanese […]
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UNHCR calls on states to expedite family reunification procedures for Afghan refugees
15 Oct 2021This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
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On World Food Day, UN calls for strengthened and inclusive local food systems for displaced and host communities
15 Oct 2021Geneva – Scaled-up investments in local food systems are critical to ensure sustainable food security and nutrition for forcibly displaced people and host communities, three UN agencies say, ahead of World Food Day on 16 October. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN Refugee Agency […]