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Winners announced for UNHCR Youth with Refugees Art Contest

Winners announced for UNHCR Youth with Refugees Art Contest

Ελληνικά UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today announced the winners of its first-ever Youth with Refugees Art Contest. More than 2,000 participants from 100 countries submitted drawings and comic strips. One in four participants were themselves refugees or...

UN agencies welcome latest relocations of unaccompanied children from Greece, call for further action and solidarity

UN agencies welcome latest relocations of unaccompanied children from Greece, call for further action and solidarity

Ελληνικά GENEVA – IOM, the International Organization for Migration, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund today welcomed the latest relocations of 49 unaccompanied asylum-seeking and migrant children from Greece to Portugal and Finland. Twenty-four unaccompanied asylum-seeking children left Greece and arrived safely in Finland this afternoon. […]

Access to asylum further at stake in Hungary – UNHCR

Access to asylum further at stake in Hungary – UNHCR

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned about a legislative development in Hungary, the adoption on 17 June of the Act LVIII on Transitional Rules and Epidemiological Preparedness related to the Cessation of the State of Danger in response to the COVID-19 situation. This enactment further undermines the effective access […]