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News releases

Latest press releases and briefing notes

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UNHCR calls on Hungary to protect, not persecute, refugees

8 May 2015

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Statelessness: UNHCR helps indigenous people without frontiers in Central America

7 May 2015

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UNHCR flies in shelter materials for quake-displaced in Nepal

7 May 2015

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UNHCR calls for joint response in wake of "Rohingya mass grave" in Thailand

6 May 2015

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Italy reception centres under strain as thousands rescued at sea

6 May 2015

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UNHCR and partners help sea crossing survivors in Libya detention centres

28 April 2015

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Almost 21,000 Burundians flee to Rwanda this month to escape electoral violence

28 April 2015

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Joint Statement on Protection in the Mediterranean in light of the EU Council's Decision of 23 April 2015

27 April 2015

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UNHCR rushes supplies to Nepal earthquake survivors

27 April 2015

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UN: Central African Republic at risk of becoming the world's largest forgotten humanitarian crisis

27 April 2015

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UNHCR's Guterres and Jolie Pitt address UN Security Council on Syria

24 April 2015

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Joint statement on Mediterranean crossings

23 April 2015

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High Commissioner Filippo Grandi during an interview on the border between Moldova and Ukraine