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UNHCR and NRC PRESS RELEASE

In a major development to prevent statelessness, Liberia has amended its nationality law to grant women and men equal rights to confer nationality to their children. The President of Liberia signed into law an act to amend the Aliens and Nationality Law on 5 August, removing gender-discriminatory provisions which prevented […]

Despite troubling rates of malnutrition, gains were noted in the inclusion of refugees in national health policies

GENEVA – Protection services are severely lacking for refugees and migrants making perilous journeys from the Sahel and Horn of Africa towards North Africa and Europe, including survivors of human trafficking, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency warned today. In a report released today, the eve of World Day against Trafficking in Persons, UNHCR mapped protection […]

Refugees will need continued support until they are able to return.

GENEVA – The collective global response to the COVID-19 pandemic fell short in protecting the rights of refugees despite extraordinary efforts by local actors and the international community, according to a major international report released today. The international evaluation, a first of its kind,  was conducted by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, […]

Kabul – Three convoys of relief supplies from UNHCR, UN Refugee Agency, have so far been sent to help people in southeastern Afghanistan’s Paktika and Khost provinces who lost their homes and possessions amid the devastation wrought by last Wednesday’s earthquake. To-date, UNHCR has provided relief supplies sufficient for more than […]

UNHCR is supporting local authorities in the Somali Region of Ethiopia to provide urgent aid to thousands forced to leave in search of water during worst drought for 40 years.

Geneva – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency are shocked and deeply saddened at the deaths of dozens of people discovered in an abandoned tractor trailer in the US state of Texas yesterday. The organizations call for a vigorous investigation and prosecution of all those […]

This 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.