Young Rohingya refugees are helping to turn world’s largest camp green
Youth groups are championing efforts to regreen refugee camps in Bangladesh and to raise awareness about the impacts of the climate crisis. By Kristy Siegfried in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh | 15 November 2022 Samia has spent five of her 14 years living in Kutupalong –...
UN Refugee Agency warns of extreme hardship for forcibly displaced families this winter
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Olga Sarrado – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Millions of people from Ukraine, Afghanistan and across the Middle East displaced by conflict...
Displaced people join efforts to adapt to climate change in Mozambique
With UNHCR’s help, refugees and internally displaced people hit by cyclones are building new homes that can withstand the impacts of climate change. By Hélène Caux in Corrane and Maratane, Nampula province, Mozambique “I had never experienced such strong winds and...
‘As a refugee, I have seen the impacts of the climate crisis up close’
From drought and flooding to increasing competition for scarce resources, South Sudanese refugee Opira Bosco Okot knows only too well how the climate crisis has made life harder for displaced people. By Opira Bosco Okot in Kampala, Uganda Opira Bosco Okot, 26, is a...
Former ‘nature beginner’ is now on the front lines of the fight against climate change
By Jenny Barchfield in Guatemala For Joshua, a refugee who fled gang violence, protecting the threatened tropical forests of his host country, Guatemala, has become both a calling and a moral imperative. When he thinks back to his life back before he arrived in...
UN Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees calls for joint action to address shifting challenges of mixed movements in the Americas
Shifting trends in displacement are posing increasing challenges in the Americas that require coordinated regional responses, UNHCR, UN Refugee Agency, Assistant High Commissioner for Operations Raouf Mazou said after concluding a two-week trip to the region. In Costa...
UNHCR and IOM appeal for urgent disembarkation of all stranded refugees and migrants in central Mediterranean
GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), continue to urge European governments to swiftly offer a place of safety and allow the immediate disembarkation of nearly 600 people who remain on NGO vessels after...
UNHCR’s Grandi urges world leaders not to forget displaced people at COP27
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi is urging global leaders to curb the most devastating humanitarian consequences of the climate crisis and avert a catastrophic future for millions of displaced people. “COP27 must equip countries and communities on the...