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Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, “We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire”
NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME, 5 November 2023 – For almost a month, the world has been watching the unfolding situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in shock and horror at the spiralling numbers of lives lost and torn apart. In Israel, some 1,400 people...![Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, “We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire”](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Thumbnail_logo.png)
UNHCR reports progress on tackling statelessness
Important results have been achieved worldwide this year to help resolve the devastating impact of statelessness, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, reports today as it marks the 9th anniversary of its decade-long #IBelong campaign. In 2023, the Kyrgyz Republic and the...![Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, “We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire”](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Thumbnail_logo.png)
High Commissioner’s 2023 Kofi Annan Geneva peace address
There was a time, in the lives of many of us, in which we thought that we had entered an era of peace — not perfect peace, not global peace, but peace that could progressively extend to further parts of the world. A time, after the Berlin Wall was finally reduced to...![High Commissioner’s statement to the United Nations Security Council](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/un71009673_20231031_lf_3295.webp)
High Commissioner’s statement to the United Nations Security Council
Thank you, Mr President, Our latest figures speak of 114 million refugees and displaced people around the world: 114 million! This is surely a tangible but sometimes neglected symptom of the world’s current extreme disorder, and including this yearly discussion in...![Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, “We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire”](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Thumbnail_logo.png)
High Commissioner’s statement to the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly
Mr Chairman, We have all watched in shock the events in Israel and Gaza over the past four weeks including the devastating bombing of Jabalia refugee camp today. I echo the calls of the Secretary-General for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, unhindered humanitarian...![Midwifery programme tackles Afghanistan’s high maternal and infant mortality rates](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/RF1308067.webp)
Midwifery programme tackles Afghanistan’s high maternal and infant mortality rates
In remote rural villages, difficulties in reaching health services and trained health staff are life-threatening for mothers and their infants By Caroline Gluck in Bamyan province, Central Highlands, Afghanistan Speaking from her one-room, mud-built house in the...![UNHCR: Forced displacement continues to grow as conflicts escalate](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/RF1282536-950x675.webp)
UNHCR: Forced displacement continues to grow as conflicts escalate
War and violence drove global displacement to an estimated 114 million by the end of September 2023 GENEVA – The number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence and human rights violations globally is likely to have exceeded 114 million at the end of...![Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, “We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire”](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Thumbnail_logo.png)
UNHCR commends the Republic of the Congo’s commitment to end statelessness
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, applauds the Government and people of the Republic of the Congo for its recent accession to the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. In a country with a population...![UNHCR expresses grave concern for the protection of people displaced by violence in eastern DR Congo](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/RF1270120_151A0703-1080x675.webp)