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UNHCR welcomes agreement on migration compact
19 Dec 2018UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes today’s endorsement by the UN General Assembly of a Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
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States reach historic deal for refugees and commit to more effective, fairer response
17 Dec 2018UN General Assembly agrees on an innovative global framework to better serve the forcibly displaced and their host communities.
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You can now find Gifts of Hope on Lazada
13 Dec 2018Supporters can offer hope to displaced families in the Philippines and refugees in emergency hotspots worldwide through Gifts of Hope, a set of donation vouchers they can purchase individually or collectively from the shop of UNHCR Philippines on Lazada.
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UN and partners launch plan to support Syrian refugees and countries hosting them as number of Syrian refugee new-borns reaches one million mark
12 Dec 2018United Nations Agencies and NGO partners today released the 2019-2020 Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP), a USD 5.5 billion plan designed to support national efforts in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq deal with the continued impact of the Syria crisis.
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UNHCR urges protection of Yemeni civilians
10 Dec 2018In Yemen, each new day of the conflict inflicts more suffering on an already battered and exhausted civilian population. Given the heavy human cost, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, urges parties to the conflict in Yemen to improve the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure.
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This group of mountaineers hiked for the world’s refugees. So can you
7 Dec 2018UNHCR, Trail Adventours team up through a hike-for-a-cause
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16 Days of Activism: Grandi calls for better protection of refugees against sexual violence in the workplace
25 Nov 2018UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called today for renewed and bold action to better protect refugees and displaced people from sexual and gender-based violence, or SGBV, in the workplace. “The world of work can be particularly risky for refugees and other forcibly displaced people. Many are left with […]
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Four years into its #IBelong Campaign to end statelessness, UNHCR calls for more resolute action by states
14 Nov 2018Four years after the launch of a decade-long campaign to eradicate statelessness globally, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, called today on states to take faster and more resolute action to help meet the campaign goal. Important results have been achieved since November 2014 when UNHCR’s #IBelong campaign began. More than […]
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UNHCR extremely concerned about escalation of conflict in Yemen’s Hudaydah
9 Nov 2018This 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. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is extremely concerned about the recent intensification of conflict in Yemen’s Al […]
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UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie calls for lasting ceasefire in Yemen
4 Nov 2018UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie today called for the urgent establishment of a ceasefire in Yemen and a lasting settlement to the conflict. She welcomed recent discussion of a halt to hostilities, and called on the United Nations Security Council, working with countries in the region, to find a negotiated […]