UN Refugee Agency releases 2022 resettlement needs
1.47 million refugees will be in need of resettlement next year. This is according to the latest estimates released by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in its Projected Global Resettlement Needs 2022 report issued today. “Despite the pandemic, wars and conflict continue...
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. ...
UNHCR congratulates the Tokyo 2020 Refugee Olympic Team
Ελληνικά UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, celebrates today’s announcement by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of the Tokyo 2020 Refugee Olympic Team. After years of training, 29 refugee athletes will head to Tokyo in July to participate at this summer’s games....