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UNHCR warns of critical protection gaps for people on the move in the Sahel and East Africa
Today, on World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warns of life-threatening gaps in assistance to victims of trafficking and other vulnerable people in need of protection, along different routes within the Sahel and East Africa. It is...![News comment: Death of former High Commissioner Jean-Pierre Hocké](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/former-high-comissioner.jpg)
News comment: Death of former High Commissioner Jean-Pierre Hocké
Former UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Jean-Pierre Hocké, who led the UN Refugee Agency from 1986 to 1989, passed away on Monday in Lausanne, Switzerland. Prior to becoming UNHCR’s sixth High Commissioner in 1986, Mr. Hocké, a Swiss national, served as Director of...![Displaced Afghan family struggles to cope amid latest violence](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Zarif-in-northern-Afghanistan.jpeg)
Displaced Afghan family struggles to cope amid latest violence
A widowed mother-of-four struggling to take care of her family in a camp is among the 270,000 Afghans displaced since the start of the year by the latest upsurge in fighting. By Edris Lutfi in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan Two weeks after fleeing her home to escape...![UNHCR calls for renewed commitment to South Sudan’s peace, development, and future](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/south-sudan.jpg)
UNHCR calls for renewed commitment to South Sudan’s peace, development, and future
This is a summary of what was said by Arafat Jamal UNHCR Representative in South Sudan and ad interim Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, UN Resident and UN Humanitarian Coordinator – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press...![Mexican journalist, sportscaster and writer Alberto Lati appointed UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/60e320fe4-1-966x675.jpg)
Mexican journalist, sportscaster and writer Alberto Lati appointed UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
Renowned Mexican journalist, sportscaster and writer Alberto Lati, has today been announced as a UNHCR, UN Refugee Agency, Goodwill Ambassador for Mexico. Through his reporting and authorship, Lati has long been a champion of the refugee cause. He began his...![Women in many countries face discrimination in registering children at birth warn UNHCR and UNICEF](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/58da572c3.jpg)
Women in many countries face discrimination in registering children at birth warn UNHCR and UNICEF
GENEVA / NEW YORK – A joint report released today by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), shows that in many countries women can face discrimination which obstructs or hinders their ability to register births, exposing their...![Data visualization brings to light COVID-19’s threats to forcibly displaced women and children](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Unaccompanied-child-receiving-support-at-the-Solidarity-and-Action-Association.jpeg)
Data visualization brings to light COVID-19’s threats to forcibly displaced women and children
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is today releasing a new data visualization, which highlights the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the safety and wellbeing of forcibly displaced women and children. Seventy per cent of all forcibly displaced people...![UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Gillian Triggs among laureates of inaugural Ruth Bader Ginsburg Medal of Honor](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/60e312b61b-966x675.jpg)
UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Gillian Triggs among laureates of inaugural Ruth Bader Ginsburg Medal of Honor
Geneva – UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Gillian Triggs was awarded the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Medal of Honor today in Madrid at a ceremony hosted by H.M. King Felipe VI of Spain and organized by the World Jurist Association. The Ruth Bader Ginsburg...![‘We are the lucky ones’](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/sudan-header-image.jpg)