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Q&A: Access to health services is key to halting COVID-19 and saving refugee lives
UNHCR’s leading public health expert says prevention and inclusion must be at the heart of the response for displaced people, especially in areas with weak health services. By Jonathan Clayton in Geneva Ann Burton, Chief of UNHCR’s Public Health Section, outlines the...![Syrian refugees aid vulnerable Swiss amid COVID-19 outbreak](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Swiss.jpg)
Syrian refugees aid vulnerable Swiss amid COVID-19 outbreak
As the elderly and unwell self-isolate, a network of Syrians provides a vital bridge to the outside world for Swiss in greatest need. By Tim Gaynor and Elisabet Diaz Sanmartin As a retired doctor living alone in Switzerland, Marie-Claude was concerned about how to...![How your Zakat has helped rebuild the lives of refugees](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/RF2230744_IMG_1990-1080x675.jpg)
How your Zakat has helped rebuild the lives of refugees
By Lynn Al Nasser For Muslims around the world, the Holy Month of Ramadan is a time of reflection, gratitude and patience. It is a time for families and communities to gather and break their fast (iftar) together. For 30 days, Muslims are required to fast from sunrise...![NASIMCO volunteer draws on personal experience to support refugees](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Gulam-Abbas-Najafi-16-1080x675.jpg)
NASIMCO volunteer draws on personal experience to support refugees
By Fiona Irvine-Goulet Gulamabbas Najafi, Vice-President of NASIMCO (North American Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Communities), understands what it’s like to be a refugee: in 1972, during Uganda’s brutal regime of Idi Amin, Najafi and his family were forced to flee from...![Opinion: We need to tell the world of the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis”](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/RF2256170_20190928_163223-1080x675.jpg)
Opinion: We need to tell the world of the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis”
By Jean-Nicolas Beuze, UNHCR Yemen Representative I am the new UNHCR Representative in Yemen, writing this from our base in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital city at the foot of Mount Nuqum in the western part of the country. I was last here in 2013 during what became a very...![“I want to inspire refugees”](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/RF2249236_201909161346_Jordan_JMC_0866-1080x675.jpg)
“I want to inspire refugees”
Olympian and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Yusra Mardini on resiliency, Tokyo 2020, and how the Olympics bring people together By Yusra Mardini, as told to Hannah Scott Syrian refugee and swimmer Yusra Mardini was appointed the youngest ever UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in...![UNHCR airlifts emergency aid for Sudanese refugees in Chad](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Chad.jpg)
UNHCR airlifts emergency aid for Sudanese refugees in Chad
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, airlifted 93.5 tonnes of emergency aid for...![Statement by Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, on the COVID-19 crisis](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/588c5e384-1080x630.jpg)
Statement by Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, on the COVID-19 crisis
“With the world mobilizing to combat the spread of COVID-19, many countries are rightly adopting exceptional measures, limiting air travel and cross-border movements. And for many people around the world, everyday life has come to a standstill, or is being transformed...![Humanitarian agencies seek US$290 million to support Burundian refugees](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Untitled-design-2-1080x675.jpg)