UNHCR strengthens cooperation with the Ministry of Labour to improve the asylum system in Kyrgyzstan
On 23 December 2021 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, handed over computer and office equipment in the amount of KGS 1,560,832 to the Migration Department of the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Migration of the Kyrgyz Republic for employees of territorial...
UNHCR donates additional prefabricated housing units to the Red Crescent Society of the Kyrgyz Republic
On 16 December 2021 the National Office of the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, donated 48 new prefabricated refugee housing units (RHUs) worth 6,275,286 Kyrgyz som to the Red Crescent Society of the Kyrgyz Republic. Made through the Disaster Response Coordination Unit...
UNHCR sends humanitarian aid to Afghanistan through Termez in Uzbekistan
On 15 December 2021, the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, trucked humanitarian goods from Termez, Uzbekistan, to Afghanistan. The delivery is part of UNHCR’s aid effort to Afghanistan and a massive operation to provide life-saving aid to the people of Afghanistan. The...
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Manizha visits Almaty as part of a global campaign against gender-based violence
On 9 December as part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, singer, finalist of Eurovision 2021 and UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Russia Goodwill Ambassador Manizha arrived in Almaty. The singer visits Kazakhstan as a founder of the SILSILA Foundation...
News Comment: UNHCR: Afghans Struggle to Seek Safety as Borders Remain Shut to Most
Bangkok, 1 December 2021 This news comment is attributable Indrika Ratwatte, Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is profoundly concerned by escalating risks faced by Afghans seeking to flee into neighbouring...
UNHCR urges support to address worsening gender-based violence impact on refugee, displaced and stateless women and girls
The following statement is attributable to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi One in five refugee or internally displaced women have faced sexual violence. Today, given the prolonged human rights and socio-economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic,...
UNHCR urges Tajikistan to halt returns of Afghans at risk
BANGKOK – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed at the deportation of Afghan asylum-seekers by the Tajik authorities this week. 11 men, women and children were forcibly returned to Afghanistan on 11 November, prior to any examination of their claims for asylum and...
NHRC and UNHCR presented results of comparative analysis on nationality and statelessness in Uzbekistan
On 12 November 2021, the National Human Rights Centre of the Republic of Uzbekistan jointly with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency conducted a workshop on nationality and statelessness with the goal to present the main findings of a comparative legal analysis on...
NHRC and UNHCR presented Uzbek translation of Handbooks for Parliamentarians on statelessness and refugee protection
On 11 November 2021, the National Human Rights Centre of the Republic of Uzbekistan jointly with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, presented translation of Handbooks for Parliamentarians on the prevention and reduction of statelessness as well as on refugee protection in...
UNHCR supports the national population and housing census in Uzbekistan
On 10 November the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR donated 70 sets of computer equipment to the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Statistics. The State Committee will use this equipment to digitalize the data collection process during the pilot census of...
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...
UNHCR welcomes data collection on stateless persons in the 2021 population census of Kazakhstan
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes conducting the 2021 population census in Kazakhstan with the inclusion of a component on nationality and statelessness. UNHCR is pleased to cooperate with the Bureau of National Statistics of Kazakhstan to improve data collection...