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UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner lauds solidarity of Romania and the Republic of Moldova towards Ukrainian refugees
Concluding a week-long visit to Romania and the Republic of Moldova, Raouf Mazou expressed his appreciation for the remarkable solidarity displayed in both countries towards people fleeing Ukraine. “In the past days, I have witnessed first-hand the generosity that has...
UNHCR redoubles its aid inside Ukraine and the region
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Matthew Saltmarsh – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The war in Ukraine has triggered one of the fastest-growing displacement and...
Ukrainian volunteer rallies village to welcome displaced families
By Victoria Andrievska in Velykyi Bereznyi, Ukraine As families fled west to escape fighting, Rymma Mytrak came up with a plan and with help from her neighbours opened a shelter for 80 people within days. In late February, when Rymma Mytrak saw reports of...
Mental health issues can be both the driver and result of displacement
By Jenny Barchfield in Guatemala City, Guatemala While medicine shortages have forced some people with mental health issues to flee Venezuela, the stresses of journeys to safety throughout the Americas have pushed others into depression. Leo Medina was just a teenager...
From Syria to Canada, lawyer to journalist
Q&A with Maan Alhmidi. A lawyer by training and now a journalist with the Canadian Press news agency.
Brick by brick: Students’ policy ideas to help refugees make their way to the real UN
At first, it looked like a room full of diplomats. Hundreds of smartly dressed people raising placards with country names. Small groups holding peace talks in the corner. Notes passed quietly from one person to the next. But actually it was a room full of secondary...
On Oscars night, Hollywood stars show solidarity #WithRefugees
By UNHCR Staff With themes of displacement and loss featuring in many of the nominated films, celebrities at the ceremony and online shone a light on refugee crises in Ukraine and beyond. On Sunday night, as the eyes of the world turned to Los Angeles and the 2022...
UN High Commissioner for Refugees calls for immediate end to Ukraine war, which has uprooted over 10 million people
Visiting Ukraine for the first time since the Russian military offensive, UN High Commissioner for Refugees appealed for an end to the war, while calling on the international community to provide sustained support to the millions of civilians.
Thousands flee into Uganda following clashes in DR Congo
This is a summary of what was said by Joel Boutroue, UNHCR’s Representative to Uganda, to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, alongside the Government of Uganda and...
Cash offers a lifeline to refugees from Ukraine arriving in Poland
By Kristy Siegfried in Warsaw, Poland Cash assistance is allowing refugees from Ukraine to make their own decisions about what they need most after arriving in Poland and other countries in the region. Eleven days after the war in Ukraine started, a bomb fell on the...
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