Inclusion key to protecting refugees and their hosts amid COVID-19 pandemic
Innovation, solidarity and greater support needed in order to face challenges in the protection and well-being of refugees, internally displaced and stateless people.
World Cities Day: Cities lead the way in protecting forcibly displaced against impact of COVID-19
More than 60 per cent of the world’s refugees and 80 per cent of internally displaced people live in cities around the world.
Refugees find help with mental health effects of Beirut blast
With her daughter left traumatized by the 4 August explosion, Syrian mother Fahima approached UNHCR, who arranged for professional help with her mental recovery.
A month after Moria fires, UNHCR warns of worsening conditions ahead of winter
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
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.






