Angelina Jolie marks World Refugee Day with refugees in Burkina Faso
The Special Envoy for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Angelina Jolie, is in Burkina Faso for World Refugee Day to bring attention to the fastest growing emergency in the world today. Displacement doubled in the last year alone. Burkina Faso is acutely affected by the...
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi’s message on World Refugee Day – 20 June 2021
Ελληνικά Two days ago, we announced that an unprecedented number of people have been forced to flee their homes. More than 82.4 million men, women and children have had their worlds turned upside down by war, violence and persecution. While the rest of us spent much...
UNHCR: World leaders must act to reverse the trend of soaring displacement
Ελληνικά UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is today urging world leaders to step up their efforts to foster peace, stability and cooperation in order to halt and begin reversing nearly a decade-long trend of surging displacement driven by violence and persecution. Despite...
World Refugee Day 2021
20 June is World Refugee Day Join us this year on World Refugee Day and support refugees across the globe and here in Cyprus to be protected and included in health care, education and sport. Together we can achieve anything. Together we heal, learn and shine. ...
More concerted action needed to better protect LGBTIQ+ people forced from home
A landmark international conference opened today to address the urgent need to better protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ+) people around the world who have fled violence or persecution and are seeking refuge inside their own...
News comment by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Denmark’s new law on the transfer of asylum-seekers to third countries
Today, the Danish Parliament approved amendments to the Danish Aliens Act. The amendments will enter into effect if Denmark secures a formal agreement with a third country. This could see the forcible transfer of asylum-seekers and the abdication of Denmark’s...