UNHCR’s Gillian Triggs warns COVID-19 severely testing refugee protection
International standards of refugee protection have been severely tested in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency’s, international protection chief said today. In a key annual address to UNHCR’s annual Executive Committee meeting in Geneva, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Gillian Triggs, said measures enacted […]
Maintain aid levels to save lives and protect the vulnerable, UN refugee chief
During the pandemic, sustaining aid will mitigate marginalization that will be more costly to address later, Filippo Grandi tells high-level meeting.
UNHCR launches new portal with verified higher education opportunities for refugees
Developed in response to needs expressed by refugee students, the UNHCR Opportunities site intends to provide a global database of reliable, up-to-date information on refugee-eligible, scholarship programs both in their current countries of asylum and abroad. “There has always been a need to centralize information on opportunities available to refugees, especially education […]
Colombian child rights defender wins UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award
Ελληνικά This year’s laureate of the Nansen Refugee Award – a humanitarian prize given annually by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency – is an educator who has spent more than 20 years rescuing sexually exploited and trafficked children, many of them refugees. Mayerlín Vergara Pérez, Maye, has dedicated her life […]
UN agencies hail milestone as over 1000 asylum seekers relocated from Greece so far this year through EU initiative
Joint IOM/UNHCR/UNICEF Press Release
News comment: UNHCR welcomes Pope Francis’ support for internally displaced
By Gillian Triggs, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency