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With no let-up for war-affected Ukrainians, UN launches humanitarian and refugee plans to respond in 2024
The United Nations and partners today asked donors for a combined $4.2 billion to support war-affected communities in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees and their host communities in the region throughout 2024.
Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, One in five people in the Central Sahel needs humanitarian aid: Now is the time to turn words into action
NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME – The crises gripping the Central Sahel are exacerbating humanitarian and protection needs and threatening to reverse development gains. In 2024, some 17 million people in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger need humanitarian assistance and protection – or about one fifth of the population.¹ This crisis also disproportionately affects women and girls, worsening gender inequalities in the region.
UNHCR and Islamic Development Bank collaborate to support education, health care, and livelihood opportunities in Afghanistan
Responding to Afghanistan’s deepening humanitarian crisis, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), in its capacity as the trustee of the Afghanistan Humanitarian Trust Fund (AHTF), have signed three crucial agreements aimed at bolstering access to education, health-care services, and livelihood opportunities in the country.
UNHCR appeals to save 185 people, mostly children and women, in distress at sea around Nicobar Islands
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling on regional coastal authorities for urgent action to save a reported 185 desperate people on board a boat in distress, last heard to be near the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Displacement crisis in Sudan deepens as fighting spreads
This is a summary of what was said by Wiliam Spindler – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Global forum closes with over $2.2bn in pledges to improve lives of refugees and hosts
Held every four years, the world’s largest gathering on refugee issues mobilized over 1,600 pledges GENEVA – The second Global Refugee Forum (GRF), which brought the international community together in solidarity, closed after three days with a range of pledges to...
Global Refugee Forum 2023 Closing Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi
My thanks to you all for participating in this Global Refugee Forum. I have been extremely pleased – proud, if I may say – to have been part of the rich discussions here over these past three days; to have been infected by the energy that you have brought to this event; and to have been inspired by the work of so many of you.
Canada supports UNHCR and Colombia in strengthening protection mechanisms for Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants: a milestone in humanitarian support
Canada takes an important step in supporting Venezuelan refugees and migrants with a reinforcement of the Temporary Protection Status (TPS) program, and a firm commitment to bolstering the Colombian asylum system.
Global refugee summit opens with focus on unity for world’s refugees
As global forced displacement reaches unprecedented levels, some 4,000 delegates from 165 countries, including refugee leaders, heads of state, governments, businesses and non-profit leaders from around the world have come together to open the three-day Global Refugee Forum (GRF).
Global Refugee Forum Opening remarks of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi
This Global Refugee Forum a moment of unity, in which all of us join forces to ensure that those who flee because their life, freedom and security are threatened can find protection; and that everything is done to resolve their exile as soon as possible.
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