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UNHCR’s Gillian Triggs warns COVID-19 severely testing refugee protection

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 […]