UNHCR Canada Magazine
UNHCR Canada Magazine Your biannual magazine from the United Nations Refugee Agency in Canada. Read the latest issue of the UNHCR Canada magazine. Photo: © UNHCR/Antwan Chnkdji Twice a year, UNHCR Canada publishes a magazine to keep our donors and supporters informed...
For Yemenis on the brink, aid funding gap spells disaster
Already the world’s worst humanitarian crisis after years of conflict and mass displacement, aid cuts due to lack of funds and arrival of COVID-19 put millions of lives at risk. By Shadi Abusneida in Sana’a, Yemen Having suffered through more than five years of...testpage-general-template
UNHCR Canada Magazine Your biannual magazine from UNHCR Canada Photo: © UNHCR/Antwan Chnkdji Twice a year, UNHCR Canada publishes a magazine to keep our donors and supporters informed of the latest refugee news in Canada, and in the field. All Issues: Tenth Issue:...
UNHCR releases new guidelines on loss and deprivation of nationality
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has today issued new guidelines on the loss and deprivation of nationality. The guidance is intended to assist governments and policy makers in interpreting relevant international law. “Decisions to deprive people of nationality have...
Olympic Refuge Foundation: Sport can offer hope to displaced communities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Joint IOC/UNHCR press release The Olympic Refuge Foundation (ORF) today highlighted how sport can help build resilience and boost the mental health of forcibly displaced young people, especially during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The ORF Chair and IOC President, Thomas...
Conflict and pandemic drive more people to risk deadly sea route from Libya
A Sudanese teenager survived brushes with death in a quest for asylum, but rising insecurity and COVID-19 restrictions drove him to risk all on the open seas. By Tarik Argaz in Tripoli, Libya Since before he can remember, 18-year-old Siddik’s* life has been shaped by...
United in Music: A virtual charity concert to aid UNHCR’S coronavirus response
International artists, professors and friends from 30 countries, join Maestro Shlomo Mintz, team up for globe-spanning performance in support of the UN Refugee Agency’s COVID-19 appeal. More than 50 musicians from around the world are contributing their talents and...
UNHCR steps up emergency assistance in Libya as continued conflict and COVID-19 create more hardship
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Amidst deteriorating security conditions, as well as restrictions on movement due to...