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As of the 31st of January, a total number of 52,062 families (approximately 236,525 individuals) are currently displaced in Mindanao. COVID-19 has exacerbated many of the challenges and vulnerabilities brought by recurring conflicts and climate crisis, and forcibly displaced families need our help now more than ever.⁣ ⁣ With your […]

Poor and vulnerable communities across the world, including the forcibly displaced, struggle with the pandemic’s far-reaching consequences.

Amid COVID-19 and the challenges of 2020, your kindness is saving lives, protecting rights, and building better futures for the most remote and vulnerable forcibly displaced communities in Mindanao

Jordan has become one of the world’s first countries to start COVID-19 vaccinations for refugees, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, reports today. Raia Alkabasi, an Iraqi refugee living in the northern city of Irbid, was the first UNHCR-registered refugee in the country to receive the vaccine at the Irbid Vaccination […]

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, commends the efforts of the Philippine Supreme Court in establishing a new committee to accelerate naturalization for refugees and stateless people in the country. Under the leadership of Chief Justice Diosdado M. Peralta, the Special Committee on Facilitated Naturalization for Refugees and Stateless Individuals will […]

For seven decades, colleagues in the UN Refugee Agency have protected, saved and changed millions of lives. But how much better it would be, says High Commissioner Filippo Grandi, if no one was compelled to flee at all.

While a full picture for 2020 is yet to be established, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, estimates that global forced displacement surpassed 80 million at mid-year, according to a report on trends in global forced displacement released today in Geneva. At the beginning of this year, some 79.5 million people […]

To fight climate change, the world must learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and act with urgency, or risk far-reaching and lethal consequences for people who are forced from their homes, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Gillian Triggs said today. “The highest cost will be the cost of doing nothing,” […]

As of 21 November 2020, more than 1,125 forcibly displaced families (~5,625 individuals) have been able to return to their homes in Patikul, Sulu, after being forced to flee due to armed conflict.

Thanks to your kindness, families living in the most remote areas of Mindanao now have access to handwashing facilities and clean water supply. Together, we will continue to reach out to the most vulnerable communities.