Rwandan school bridges language gulf for Burundian students
A specially-designed course helps French-speaking refugees move into the English-based education system in Rwanda.
UNHCR shocked over Burundians deaths in DRC, calls for investigation
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is shocked and saddened over the violent
death of numerous Burundian nationals – among them likely refugees and
asylum-seekers, in Kamanyola, a town in the eastern Democratic…
UNHCR warns CAR displacement at record high, funding among lowest anywhere
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is extremely worried over continued violence
in the Central African Republic, which has been causing massive new levels
of displacement.
The number of Central African refugees…
After three year siege, UNHCR aid convoy reaches Deir Ez-Zor in eastern Syria
UNHCR’s first aid convoy in three years to Deir Ez-Zor in eastern Syria
reached the city this week.
The five trucks of aid arrived in Deir Ez-Zor yesterday (Thursday 14
September) after a 22 hour journey…
Gay and displaced on the frontlines of Ukraine's conflict
Fighting is not the only thing driving people from their homes in eastern Ukraine. Persecution is also forcing LGBTI people to flee.
New York Declaration spurs reforms to help refugees and their hosts as new framework is rolled-out
A year on from the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, in which
all 193 Member States of the United Nations made a historic commitment to
more equitably share responsibility for the world’s…