‘I am you and you are me’: UNHCR staff draw on first-hand knowledge of displacement
By UNHCR Staff On World Humanitarian Day, we talked to three colleagues whose own experience of being forced to flee their homes inspires and informs their work. Mohamed Alkalifa Ag Mohamed knows that a few simple questions can mean the difference between hope and...
‘It’s up to us!’ says NBA basketball star Wenyen Gabriel on visit to South Sudan homeland
By Colin Kampschoer The former refugee and Los Angeles Lakers’ power forward returned to his home country for the first time with a message of hope for those displaced by floods and conflict. When flooding forced 28-year-old Daniel to flee his submerged village...
With Refugees: A Career of Changing Lives
On #WorldHumanitarianDay, meet Canadian humanitarian worker Myrat Myradov who has served in the world’s biggest emergencies with UNHCR Blog by Myrat Myradov, Head of UNHCR Belize National Office Belize, 19 August 2022 — It has been almost 22 years since I began...
Five things you should know about Afghanistan
By UNHCR Over the past year, parts of Afghanistan have become safer, but the country is in the grip of a humanitarian crisis. Last August, the eyes of the world were on Afghanistan amidst the dramatic scenes at Kabul airport as people rushed to escape. Today, the...
Leading by example: Nhial Deng’s pursuit of a bright future through higher education
How a South Sudanese refugee from Ethiopia found academic opportunity in Canada By Fatou Alhya Diagne, edited by Hawa Amin-Arsala and Tamy Emma Pepin From a young age, Nhial Deng developed a passion for storytelling by listening to his father’s stories about the...
Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff releases new album titled ‘Refugees’
By UNHCR With its message of peace, love and humanity, ‘Refugees’ is also a call to action. With a career stretching back over 50 years, Jamaican musician Jimmy Cliff is often known as the “Grandfather of Reggae”. Now the 78-year-old is using his first album in over a...
New York market serves up food that showcases the city’s rich cultural heritage
By Sarah Schafer in New York Many of the nearly 100 vendors at the Queens Night Market have refugee backgrounds. When Sokhita Sok decided to sell her favorite Cambodian food, a curry dish served in a banana leaf called fish amok, at a night market in New York,...
UNHCR applauds Liberia for removing gender discrimination from its nationality law
In a major development to prevent statelessness, Liberia has amended its nationality law to grant women and men equal rights to confer nationality to their children. The President of Liberia signed into law an act to amend the Aliens and Nationality Law on 5 August,...