What Is The Aiming Higher Scholarship Program?
When a child is forced to flee their home, continuing their academic studies becomes very difficult. Education is a basic human right. It’s a vital to gaining employment and building self-reliance. And yet, for the vast majority of refugees, higher education is still...
Funding shortfall forces UNHCR to cut vital programmes in DR Congo
This is a summary of what was said by Director of UNHCR’s Division for External Relations, Dominique Hyde – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva Due to insufficient funding, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency,...
Moldovan GBV shelter offers safety and a community for refugees from Ukraine
By Roger Burks in Chisinau, Moldova When war engulfed Ukraine, Casa Marioarei – a 20-year-old organization in neighbouring Moldova’s capital – opened its doors to welcome vulnerable women and children forced to flee their homes. A welcome at Casa Marioarei usually...
Jordan’s Za’atari refugee camp: 10 facts at 10 years
Opened on 28 July 2012 and still home to 80,000 people, Za’atari refugee camp has become a symbol of the long-running Syrian refugee crisis By Lilly Carlisle in Amman, Jordan Ten years ago, a group of 450 Syrians fleeing the fighting in their country emerged from the...
Durable solutions required for Syrian refugees in Jordan as Za’atari camp turns 10
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR Representative Dominik Bartsch – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, this week marked the 10th anniversary of Za’atari camp in...
To support trafficking victims, UNHCR urges more protection services in Africa
GENEVA – Protection services are severely lacking for refugees and migrants making perilous journeys from the Sahel and Horn of Africa towards North Africa and Europe, including survivors of human trafficking, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency warned today. In...
UNHCR highlights key concerns for refugee health amid record displacement
Despite troubling rates of malnutrition, gains were noted in the inclusion of refugees in national health policies GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned about the nutrition of refugees and its potential impact on health outcomes amid a confluence...
LA Lakers’ Wenyen Gabriel visits homeland of South Sudan with UNHCR, to ‘speak up for refugees and displaced people everywhere’
“I want people to know about South Sudan. I always wanted to go back, and I am happy I’ve made it here.” LA Lakers’ Power Forward and former refugee Wenyen Gabriel is in South Sudan this week, visiting his homeland for the first time since being resettled to the US at...