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UN Refugee Agency releases 2022 resettlement needs

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

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...

World Refugee Day 2021

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

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....