Displaced nurses provide vital health care to others displaced in Ethiopia’s Tigray
As UNHCR and other aid agencies scale up the humanitarian response in conflict-torn Tigray, local communities and the displaced are pulling together to support one another. By Giulia Naboni and Elisabeth Arnsdorf Haslund in Mekelle, Ethiopia In a small, one-room stone...
UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Gillian Triggs among laureates of inaugural Ruth Bader Ginsburg Medal of Honor
Geneva – UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Gillian Triggs was awarded the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Medal of Honor today in Madrid at a ceremony hosted by H.M. King Felipe VI of Spain and organized by the World Jurist Association. The Ruth Bader Ginsburg...
Data points to negative impacts of COVID-19 for forcibly displaced women and children
A new data visualization shows how the pandemic has deepened the risks of violence and abuse for displaced women and children. The coronavirus pandemic has had a damaging impact on the lives of millions of refugees and internally displaced people, but the consequences...
Displacement leaves families struggling to adapt in Lake Chad region
Years after fleeing jihadist attacks, many displaced people in Chad’s Lake Province still cannot return home and are trying to rebuild their lives as best as they can. By Noémie Lehouelleur in Forkoroum camp, Lake Province, Chad “Six years, nine months.” Alimi Abali,...
‘Every little act of kindness will be remembered’
Once a refugee of the war in Viet Nam and now a US Army Colonel, Danielle Ngo has a message for everyone on America’s Independence Day. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Danielle Ngo remembers one thing from the day she became a refugee. It was April 29, 1975, a day before the...
Refugee health challenges remain high amid COVID-19
Malaria remained the single most common cause of illness among refugees in 2020, while psychological distress caused by COVID-19, and acute malnutrition constituted major threats to refugees’ health and well-being, according to data released today by UNHCR, the UN...
‘We are the lucky ones’
By Catherine Wachiaya in Tunaydbah refugee settlement, Sudan Ethiopian refugee Mihret hid in the bush for days without food or water, to escape the Tigray conflict. Now safe in Sudan, she is using her engineering skills to assist her community. Mihret, 25, will never...
News Comment by UNHCR EU Representative on launch of Slovenian Presidency of the European Union
This news comment is attributable to Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, UNHCR Representative to the EU, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands Brussels – As Slovenia takes the helm of the Presidency of the European Union (EU) on 1 July, it has an important opportunity...