News Archives
Read the current and archived releases from UNHCR – we provide a wide range of information about the UN Refugee Agency’s activities, including updates from news conference, news by our staff written from some of the world’s most remote locations, etc. At the same time, do not miss what is happening next to you – in Hong Kong. Please visit this page regularly.
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Ukraine, other conflicts push forcibly displaced total over 100 million for first time
23 May 2022 -
Statement on risks of trafficking and exploitation facing refugees from Ukraine attributed to UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection
12 Apr 2022The following statement is attributed to Gillian Triggs, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees calls for immediate end to Ukraine war, which has uprooted over 10 million people
31 Mar 2022 -
Football unites in global appeal for the United Nations response to Ukraine
29 Mar 2022As the number of refugees fleeing Ukraine approaches four million, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and World Food Programme (WFP) launch the Football for Ukraine Emergency Appeal’.
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Eleven years on, mounting challenges push many displaced Syrians to the brink
15 Mar 2022This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
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Imagining Syria
15 Mar 2022With nearly two million Syrian refugee children aged 11 or under having little or no memory of home, we asked some of them to draw what Syria means to them.
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UNHCR scales up for those displaced by war in Ukraine, deploys cash assistance
11 Mar 2022This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Matthew Saltmarsh – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
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News Comment: 1 million refugees have fled Ukraine in a week
3 Mar 2022 -
UNHCR delivers first humanitarian airlift to Republic of Moldova for refugees from Ukraine
2 Mar 2022A humanitarian airlift organised by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, arrived this morning at the Chisinau international airport in Moldova from its Dubai-based global stockpile.
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UNHCR mobilizing to aid forcibly displaced in Ukraine and neighbouring countries
1 Mar 2022This 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.