News Releases
We bring you the most up-to-date information from UNHCR Canada through news releases.
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60,000 young refugees and migrants who arrived in Italy alone need support as they enter adulthood – UN Agencies
The estimated 60,000 young refugees who arrived in Italy as unaccompanied children require support to ensure their transition into adulthood.
Clinic helps refugees and Bangladeshis in pain
A physiotherapy clinic set up by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in south-east Bangladesh treats Rohingya refugees and their Bangladeshi hosts side by side.
UNHCR flight relocates 54 vulnerable refugees from Niger to Italy
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency today relocated 54 vulnerable refugees from the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM) and urban areas in Niger to Italy.
UNHCR flies in relief for Somalis cut off by flooding
Monday’s delivery of humanitarian supplies will be the first of many to support Somalia, which has experienced its worst flooding in years.
UNHCR troubled by latest U.S. refugee resettlement cut
UNHCR is troubled by the U.S. decision to reduce, substantially and for the third consecutive year, the number of refugees it will admit for resettlement.
UNHCR statement on the death of former UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata
Former UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata, who led UNHCR from 1991 to 2000, passed away in Tokyo, Japan, her family has announced.
Training refugees and Ethiopians for the job market
A vocational programme funded by the German government teaches skills such as cooking, woodworking and mechanics to refugees and their hosts in Ethiopia.
Somali refugees return home from Yemen in latest UNHCR-facilitated departure
More than 4,800 Somali refugees have now returned home from Yemen since UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, commenced an Assisted Spontaneous Return programme.
EU, IOM and UNHCR express solidarity with Venezuelan refugees and migrants
Joint communique by co-chairs of the International Solidarity Conference on the Venezuelan Refugee and Migrant crisis, Brussels, 28-29 October 2019.
UNHCR expanding response in northern Iraq amid continuing Syrian refugee influx
More than 12,000 refugees from Syria have sought shelter in neighbouring Iraq since the latest influx began a fortnight ago, according to teams from UNHCR.
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