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10 Facts About Refugees
19.08.2021UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, provides you with 10 important facts on refugees – for a fact-based discussion.
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UNHCR warns 2020 risks lowest resettlement levels in recent history
19.11.20202020 will be a record low for refugee resettlement, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warns today.
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UNHCR urges states to end limbo for stateless people by 2024
11.11.2020COVID-19 is worsening the plight of millions of stateless people worldwide, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi warned today. Marking the sixth anniversary of UNHCR’s #IBelong Campaign, aimed at ending statelessness by 2024, Grandi called on world leaders to include and protect stateless populations and make bold and swift […]
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10 Facts About Refugees
05.08.2020UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, provides you with 10 important facts on refugees – for a fact-based discussion.
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Livestream event: ‘Refugee Voices from Around the World’
19.06.2020This World Refugee Day, get to know some of the refugees behind the numbers in our virtual event, streaming live from Friday 19 to Sunday 21 June.
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Coronavirus: UNHCR offers practical recommendations in support of European countries to ensure access to asylum and safe reception
27.04.2020UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has called today on European countries to safeguard the many good practices and redouble their efforts to strengthen asylum systems in Europe in these trying times.
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The Council of Europe and UNHCR support Member States in bringing refugee health workers into the COVID-19 response
14.04.2020Joint press release by the Council of Europe and UNHCR encourages States to benefit from the support refugee health professionals can provide to national health systems during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Information on Coronavirus (COVID-19)
23.03.2020The outbreak of COVID-19 affects the entire region. Find here global guidance as well as country-specific resources from authorities in the Northern European countries.
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Thank you, Northern Europe
19.12.2019UNHCR’s Regional Representative thanks the countries in Northern Europe for strong and important contributions at the first ever Global Refugee Forum.
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Sporting world pledge support for refugees, ahead of next week’s Global Refugee Forum
10.12.2019Over 80 organizations join UNHCR and the International Olympic Committee to help young refugees discover their potential through sports.
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UNHCR’s Guterres: Syria refugees reach one million
Data received from UNHCR’s offices in the Syria region shows that the number of Syrians either registered as refugees or being assisted as such has now reached the one million mark.
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Denmark contributes with USD 3 million to UNHCR emergency operations in Africa
Recurrent conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), South Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR) in the last couple of months have put additional pressure on UNHCR’s emergency operations in the region.
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Finland strengthens its support to UNHCR
UNHCR thanks Finland for its significant support to UNHCR. Finland recently donated USD 12.4 million to the Syria crisis and for UNHCR operations in Africa and Asia, adding to the support so far of USD 22.4 million in 2014.
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‘Art for Social Change’: Positive experience in Latvia inspires Swede to coach young refugees in Norrköping
When Carl Biörsmark graduated from high school in the eighties in Norrköping, Sweden, he didn’t envisage that in 30 years he would become one of the first integration coaches in the country.
