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WFP, UNHCR appeal for funding for over 3 million refugees hit by ration cuts in Eastern Africa

2 March 2021

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UNHCR seeks urgent access to detained asylum-seekers in Tanzania

28 February 2021

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Education for all refugee children is within reach – finds World Bank-UNHCR report

25 February 2021

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UN agencies begin processing at Matamoros

24 February 2021

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Uganda. UNHCR Supporter Gugu Mbatha-Raw at the Women's Centre in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, with Sifa Semeki, a refugee.

British Hollywood actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw named UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador

24 February 2021

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Burundian refugee Velarie Ntahonicaye and her family pose outside their home in Kigoma Refugee Camp, Tanzania, April 2019.

Humanitarian agencies seek US$222 million to support Burundian refugees

16 February 2021

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Costa Rica. Visit of UNHCR's High Commissioner, Filippo Grandi, to Nicaraguan refugees and migrants in Costa Rica.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees commends Costa Rica for commitment to those forced to flee

12 February 2021

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Guatemala. Asylum-seeking family struggling to recover after Storm Eta

UNHCR welcomes expansion of Guatemala's asylum capacity

10 February 2021

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Colombia. Visit of UNHCR's High Commisioner, Filippo Grandi, to Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Bogota, Colombia.

Statement by the UN High Commissioner for refugees on Colombia's new temporary protection measure for Venezuelans

8 February 2021

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Colombia. High Commissioner visits Maicao Integrated Assistance Centre

UNHCR and IOM welcome Colombia's decision to regularize Venezuelan refugees and migrants

8 February 2021

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Niger. A displaced pastoralist in his shelter at an IDP site in Tahoua region

UNHCR and IOM call for improved safeguards for the displaced on the frontlines of climate emergency

4 February 2021

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A refugee family from Syria pictured at their home, in May 2016. They were previously resettled to the United States from Jordan.

Biden move on refugee resettlement will save lives: UNHCR

4 February 2021

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