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74th Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme – Statement by Ms Gillian Triggs, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection
Mister Chair, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues, The High Commissioner’s Note on International Protection this year takes its inspiration from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, agreed 75 years ago. For it was the Declaration that first affirmed...![High Commissioner’s opening statement to the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/RF1310075.webp)
High Commissioner’s opening statement to the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme
Madam Chair, Vice Chairs, Rapporteur, Distinguished delegates, including our newest member, Angola, The shocking images of the appalling attacks carried out by Hamas against Israeli civilians have filled our screens in the last 48 hours. We are now witnessing another...![As Sudan conflict rages on, health crisis hits displacement camps](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/rf1305513-1080x675.webp)
As Sudan conflict rages on, health crisis hits displacement camps
Nearly six months of conflict has pushed Sudan’s health system to breaking point. In overcrowded camps, infectious diseases are spreading and child deaths are on the rise By Omer Elnaiem in White Nile State, Sudan At the entrance to the living room in their...![A decade after the Lampedusa shipwreck, the continuing tragedies need to end](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/RF1135665-1080x675.webp)
A decade after the Lampedusa shipwreck, the continuing tragedies need to end
Joint statement by the Coordinator of the UN Network on Migration, Amy E. Pope, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi When a boat crammed with over 500 women, men, and children sank off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa 10...![UNHCR, WHO warn of deteriorating health conditions as 1,200 children die of suspected measles, malnutrition in Sudan](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/RF1305540-1080x675.jpg)
UNHCR, WHO warn of deteriorating health conditions as 1,200 children die of suspected measles, malnutrition in Sudan
GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the World Health Organization (WHO) are again sounding the alarm on the worsening health situation caused by the Sudan crisis. According to UNHCR teams in Sudan’s White Nile state, more than 1,200 refugee children under 5...![UNHCR scales up humanitarian response in flood-ravaged eastern Libya as tens of thousands are newly displaced](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/RF1305576-1080x675.jpg)
UNHCR scales up humanitarian response in flood-ravaged eastern Libya as tens of thousands are newly displaced
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and its teams in Libya are scaling up operations to respond to the fast-growing needs of thousands of internally displaced people, refugees and others affected by the devastating floods caused by Storm Daniel. Storm Daniel hit eastern...![74th Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme – Statement by Ms Gillian Triggs, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Thumbnail_logo.png)
UNHCR’s Grandi praises Chad’s role hosting Sudanese; more aid urgently needed
Over 400,000 people, mostly women and children, have fled Sudan for Chad, nearly doubling the number of the Sudanese refugees being hosted by the country N’Djamena – Chad is in urgent need of more international support to help it cope with the surge in the...![As more people flee conflict in Sudan, conditions at South Sudan border deteriorate](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rf1301208-1080x675.jpg)
As more people flee conflict in Sudan, conditions at South Sudan border deteriorate
Those fleeing Sudan are arriving to remote parts of northern South Sudan where humanitarian organizations are struggling to provide emergency aid during the height of the rainy season By Donna Omulo and Moulid Hujale in Renk, South Sudan Every day, more people fleeing...![Young doctor displaced by Sudan’s conflict helps others forced to flee](https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/rf1299209_0-1080x675.jpg)