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
UNHCR: alleviating suffering and overcrowding in Greek islands’ reception centres must be part of the emergency response
Ελληνικά UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for urgent action to improve conditions and ensure humane solutions for asylum seekers in reception centres in the Aegean islands, including in the new emergency site on Lesvos. In the aftermath of the series of blazes that devastated the Moria Reception and […]
UNHCR and IOM call for a truly common and principled approach to European migration and asylum policies
Ελληνικά On the eve of the launch of the presentation of the European Commission’s new Pact on Migration and Asylum, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and IOM, the International Organization for Migration, are appealing to the European Union (EU) to ensure a truly joint...






