Statement by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on U.S. asylum changes
GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned about planned changes to the asylum system in the United States. We are worried that the proposed “Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal, Credible Fear and Reasonable Fear Review”, currently being...
UNHCR and WFP warn refugees in Africa face hunger and malnutrition as COVID-19 worsens food shortages
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the World Food Programme (WFP) are warning that severe underfunding, conflict and disasters – as well as supply chain challenges, rising food prices and loss of income due to COVID19 – threaten to leave millions of refugees...
As South Sudan turns nine, its people remain committed to peace
Despite fears of an uncertain future, citizens of the world’s youngest nation cling to the hope of a peaceful South Sudan. By Elizabeth Marie Stuart in Juba, South Sudan It all began when she deescalated an argument at a water pump in the Don Bosco site for Internally...
UN agencies welcome latest relocations of unaccompanied children from Greece, call for further action and solidarity
GENEVA – IOM, the International Organization for Migration, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund today welcomed the latest relocations of 49 unaccompanied asylum-seeking and migrant children from Greece to Portugal and Finland....
UNHCR calls on South Sudan leaders to reinvigorate peace efforts on 9th anniversary of independence
Nine years since South Sudan gained independence and became the world’s youngest nation, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is calling on the country’s leaders to reinvigorate efforts to establish lasting peace and bring an end to Africa’s largest displacement crisis. “It’s...
Refugees deliver mental health services to locked down camps in Iraq
Trained community workers – many of them refugees themselves – are providing vital mental health support during the COVID-19 outbreak in northern Iraq. By Rasheed Hussein Rasheed in Duhok, northern Iraq Falak Selo knows what the sudden loss of home, country and loved...
Netflix releases Stateless, a new drama series produced by Cate Blanchett
Stateless, a powerful new show co-created and produced by the actor, director and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, explores what it means to lose your home, country and identity. By Sarah Epstein in London A new Netflix limited series out on 8 July dramatizes what it means...
Over 3,000 Congolese refugees arrive in Uganda in three days
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Charlie Yaxley – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. More than 3,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) arrived in...