Social media campaign tackles misinformation about treacherous Darién jungle
UNHCR’s ‘Trust the Toucan’ initiative uses social media to share testimonies from refugees and migrants who have survived the crossing with others considering the journey By Melissa Pinel in Darién, Panama Ayaluz sits exhausted under the shade of a tent. Her feet are...
UN Refugee Agency partners with LIV Golf for its first-ever partnership in golf
Three-year partnership and $10 million commitment will support up to 1 million people of diverse ages, genders and abilities in displacement settings around the world GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today announced its first-ever golf partnership in a...
High Commissioner’s closing statement to the seventy-fifth plenary session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme
By Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Madam Chair, Distinguished delegates, Colleagues and friends, As we conclude another session of the Executive Committee, let me thank all of you for your engagement, your support, and for the frank exchanges during...
Grandi: UNHCR will uphold core mandate while seeking novel solutions
UN High Commissioner for Refugees wraps up Executive Committee meeting in Geneva with appeal for new approaches and funding to ensure sustainable support to refugees By UNHCR Staff UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, will continue to fulfil its humanitarian mandate of...
Theo James visits Mauritania to spotlight refugees’ climate challenges ahead of COP29
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Theo James has returned from Mauritania, where he met with refugees facing the harrowing challenges of displacement. During his visit, James learned about the devastating impact of the climate crisis and the inspiring initiatives being put...
Coldplay, next band to feature on front of Barça jersey in association with Spotify
Sharing an announcement of an initiative on behalf of FC Barcelona and FC Barcelona Foundation that will benefit UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency A new men’s football Clásico is coming up very soon on 26 October, and as has become tradition of late with partner Spotify,...
UNHCR: Lebanon crisis deepens as Israeli airstrikes intensify
This is a summary of what was said by Rema Jamous Imseis, UNHCR’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. GENEVA – The escalating conflict and...
UNHCR: New Global Alliance launched to consign statelessness to history
Turkmenistan becomes the latest country to announce it has resolved statelessness inside its borders GENEVA – More than 100 States, civil society organizations, stateless-led entities, academics and others have united to form a new Global Alliance to End...