News Stories
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UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie in Nairobi, appeals for child refugees
20 Jun 2017“Over half of all refugees and displaced people worldwide are women and children. How we treat them is a measure of our humanity as nations. On World Refugee day my only ask is that people consider the pain and suffering of young girls like these.” – Angelina Jolie
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Live Blog: World Refugee Day gets under way amid record displacement
20 Jun 2017From Australasia to the Americas, UNHCR is leading celebrations of the lives of men, women and children finding new hope after escaping danger.
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War, violence, persecution push displacement to new unprecedented high
19 Jun 2017UNHCR’s annual Global Trends Report said 65.6 million people were displaced at the end of 2016, some 300,000 more than a year earlier. Over 10 million people were newly displaced during the course of the year.
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UNHCR appeals for better access as thousands flee Raqqa
13 Jun 2017This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
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Match resettlement commitments with action: UN Refugee Chief
12 Jun 2017As global resettlement needs grow alongside rising refugee numbers, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi today called for a massive increase in places available for refugees in third countries.
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News comment on latest shipwrecks on Mediterranean Sea
11 Jun 2017More than 2,500 people have been rescued in over a dozen search-and-rescue efforts coordinated by the Italian Coast Guard on Saturday and Sunday.
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UNHCR and partners aid victims of Cyclone Mora in Bangladesh
31 May 2017UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is working with the Bangladesh authorities and partners on the ground to deliver emergency supplies to Rohingya refugees and their host communities in the wake of Cyclone Mora.
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Searching for Syria? Google and UNHCR offer answers to five top questions
22 May 2017UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and Google are launching a powerful new website that gives global online audiences an informative and compelling insight into the Syrian refugee crisis, its staggering human cost and the world’s humanitarian response aimed at helping millions of Syrian families, forced from their homes by violence and persecution, survive and restore their dignity.
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Azraq, the world’s first refugee camp powered by renewable energy
17 May 2017Joint UNHCR/IKEA Foundation
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More than one million children have fled escalating violence in South Sudan
8 May 2017“That refugee children are becoming the defining face of this emergency is incredibly troubling. We, all in the humanitarian community, need most urgent, committed and sustainable support to be able to save their lives.”