13-year-old refugee boy from South Sudan sees power in new friendships
The Power of New Friendships When John arrived at Ethiopia’s Nguenyyiel Refugee Camp in February 2018, he was scared and alone. He had walked for a full month across South Sudan’s harsh landscapes – every step of his journey on foot – fleeing the violence and horror...
Join global challenge to match refugees’ 2 billion-kilometre journey
UNHCR’s 2 Billion Kilometres to safety campaign calls on runners, walkers and cyclists to dedicate their kilometres in solidarity with families uprooted by war and persecution. By UNHCR Staff GENEVA – More than 20,000 Lost Boys trek hundreds of kilometres from...
UNHCR appalled at news of refugee and migrant deaths on Mediterranean Sea
UNHCR is deeply saddened at emerging reports of an estimated 170 people who either died or went missing in two separate shipwrecks on the Mediterranean Sea. Some 53 people have died on the Alborán Sea, western Mediterranean, according to recent information from NGO...
Storm Norma brings misery to Syrian refugees in Lebanon
One dead and more than 11,000 affected by days of heavy rain and high winds from Storm Norma, with hundreds of refugees forced to abandon their homes. By Edith Champagne and Houssam Hariri in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Syrian refugee Juriya Ramadan wades through the murky,...
UNHCR Statement on Canada’s resettlement of Saudi national Rahaf al-Qunun
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency welcomes the expected arrival in Canada of Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun and the decision of the Canadian Government to provide international protection and a long-term solution for her there as a resettled refugee. The quick actions over the...
Gay Refugee from Central America Finds Safety in Canada
Forced to leave everything behind, Marco fled from gangs in Honduras Written by Erla Cabrera in Ottawa, Canada “I left home at an early age because my family didn’t support who I was,” explains 26-year-old Marco. “It was hard for us to get along, for them not to judge...
New Initiative to Sponsor 100 Syrian BVOR Refugees
News Release An additional 100 Syrian refugees will be resettled in Canada under the BVOR program before the end of this year, under a new initiative to be announced today by Jean-Nicolas Beuze of UNHCR, the UN refugee agency. Thanks to a donation of nearly $500,000...
Syrian refugee receives lifesaving heart treatment in Canada
A refugee father owes his survival to cardiology monitoring offered in Canada Before that day in May 1997 in Daraa, Syria, when he was gripped with severe chest pains, Qaseem Husainy never had any serious health problems and was far from imagining how his heart...