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UNHCR welcomes move to strengthen healthcare for stateless students

News Releases 25 Sep 2020

UNHCR scales up immediate shelter support for Moria asylum seekers; urges for long-term solutions to address overcrowding on Greek islands

News Releases 17 Sep 2020
ภาพความเสียหายหลังเหตุเพลิงไหม้ที่ศูนย์ทะเบียนและเอกลักษณ์บุคคลในค่ายโมรีอา เกาะเลสวอส ประเทศกรีซ ©UNHCR Greece

UNHCR offers support as large fire destroys asylum center in Moria

News Releases 10 Sep 2020

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Stand with Lebanon 

 

Days after two explosions that ripped through Beirut, killing more than 178 people, over 6,500 injured, 300,000 left displaced and some still missing to date.  

Many have lost loved ones and urgently need emergency aid.  

Please join our relief efforts today! 

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6,000 Baht  

could help provide safe shelter for families displaced by the explosion.  

3,000 Baht 

could help provide shelter kits, plastic sheets and emergency weather-proofing materials to families in need.  

1,000 Baht 

could help provide essential support for repair and rehabilitation efforts.

(image © Ritzau Scanpix) 

Refugees in Thailand

 

Today there are some 97,000 refugees in Thailand. Most refugees (91,940 as of August 2020, under reverification) are ethnic minorities from Myanmar, mainly Karen and Karenni, who live in nine camps in four provinces along the Thai-Myanmar border. There are also approximately 5,000 refugees and asylum-seekers of some 40 nationalities who live in Bangkok and the surrounding urban areas

Numbers of refugees in Thailand:

96,508 people

Number of camps in Thailand:

9 camps

Map of Thailand and the camps

Last updated 30 August 2020

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