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UNHCR launches new portal with verified higher education opportunities for refugees

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

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 […]