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Your holiday charitable donation can support refugees during the festive season and beyond
During the holiday season, many displaced people worldwide are without the basics they need to survive. At this time of year there are many ways you can help refugees and displaced people all over the world. While many Canadians share the joys of the holidays with...![Refugee women scale Atlas mountain to tackle gender violence](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/atlas.jpg)
Refugee women scale Atlas mountain to tackle gender violence
An all-female group including 13 refugees from six countries set out to climb Mount Toubkal – Morocco’s highest peak – to highlight the struggle to end violence against women. By Kawtar Abendag and Ass Hagouchi in Toubkal National Park, Morocco As the red sand plains...![Amid rising needs, partners seek US$1.79bn for Venezuelan refugees and migrants](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/61b1b8d94-966x675.jpeg)
Amid rising needs, partners seek US$1.79bn for Venezuelan refugees and migrants
Joint UNHCR/IOM Press release Geneva – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) are launching today a US$1.79 billion regional plan to support the increasing needs of refugees and migrants from Venezuela and their host...![Governments pledge over USD 1 billion to support UN Refugee Agency’s work for 2022](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/RF1158644-966x675.jpeg)
Governments pledge over USD 1 billion to support UN Refugee Agency’s work for 2022
Donor governments pledged a record USD 1.054 billion today to support UNHCR’s work in 2022, enabling it to continue lifesaving programs worldwide for millions of people who have been forced to flee. A further USD 808 million has been pledged for UNHCR’s programmes in...![UN High Commissioner for Refugees calls for a regional mechanism to deal with unprecedented displacement in Mexico and Central America](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/61a8ac5e4.jpeg)
UN High Commissioner for Refugees calls for a regional mechanism to deal with unprecedented displacement in Mexico and Central America
GENEVA – UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi concluded a 10-day visit to Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala with an impassioned appeal for a regional mechanism that would help to scale up, coordinate and create synergies between the different programmes,...![UNHCR report charts progress against Global Compact on Refugees](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6193d7064.jpeg)
UNHCR report charts progress against Global Compact on Refugees
A new report released today by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, shows how far the international community has come since it called for the development of a new international framework to share responsibility for refugee situations – the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR)....![UNHCR: World must turn COP26 words into action for forcibly displaced and stateless people](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/618e36063-966x675.jpeg)
UNHCR: World must turn COP26 words into action for forcibly displaced and stateless people
This is a summary of what was said by Andrew Harper, Special Advisor on Climate Action to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The climate crisis is a...![UNHCR urges governments to accelerate progress and resolve plight of world’s stateless](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Stateless.jpg)
UNHCR urges governments to accelerate progress and resolve plight of world’s stateless
More action is needed to resolve the plight of millions around the world who are still without citizenship, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, urged today as it marked seven years since the launch of its #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness. “Significant progress has...![Rohingya refugees restore depleted forest in Bangladesh](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/rohingya-climate-1.jpg)