« Ce n’est plus chez nous » : L’impact intergénérationnel d’être déraciné de son pays et de reconstruire sa vie ailleurs
De Shairoze Walji « Ce n’est plus chez nous ». Voici ce qu’aurait dit mon grand-père ou Dada, d’après ma tante, le jour où il a décidé qu’il était temps pour notre famille de quitter l’Ouganda, un pays où lui et ses quatre enfants étaient pourtant nés et...
A year from 2023 Global Refugee Forum, UNHCR announces co-convenors
GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, confirmed today that six states – Colombia, France, Japan, Jordan, Niger and Uganda – will co-convene, together with UNHCR, the next Global Refugee Forum (GRF), scheduled for December 2023. The forum will continue to...
Lighting up the lives of forcibly displaced people in Mozambique
Charlotte Fatuma, who fled violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2016, now owns a shop in Maratane refugee settlement, Nampula Province, Mozambique. © UNHCRHélène Caux UNHCR is working with development partners and the Government of Mozambique to provide...
Thousands displaced by escalating conflict in South Sudan’s Greater Upper Nile Region
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by the escalating armed conflict in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state which has displaced at least 20,000 people since August, some of them forced to flee for their lives up to four times as the conflict rages. At least 3,000...
UNHCR receives record support for forcibly displaced people as they face a daunting year
GENEVA – Governments pledged US$ 1.13 billion today to provide help and a lifeline to people displaced from their homes by war, violence and human rights violations, supporting the work of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in 2023. Along with a commitment of US$ 400...
Drought and conflict force 80,000 to flee Somalia for Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. More than 80,000 people have arrived in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, the majority...
Threadbare disability support faces uncertain future in Bangladesh refugee camps
The limited support available to Rohingya refugees with disabilities in the country’s sprawling camps is at risk as humanitarian budgets face cuts. By Matthew Saltmarsh in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh | 03 December 2022 Several times a week, Nur, an 18-year-old...
UNHCR’s Grandi: We must increase lifesaving support to vulnerable Lebanese and refugees and find solutions for Syrian refugees
BEIRUT – At the conclusion of a three-day visit to Lebanon, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, appealed to the international community to sustain its crucial support to vulnerable Lebanese and refugees in Lebanon, as the country faces its worst...