UNHCR

Al-Burhan fires Hemedti as VP as displaced Sudanese top 1 million
About 843,000 displaced internally and 250,000 have fled across Sudan’s borders since fighting broke out a month ago.
Published On 19 May 2023
UN refugee chief warns of ‘severe cuts’ without urgent funding
Filippo Grandi makes an appeal for at least $700m to help the 100 million people now displaced in the world.
Published On 10 Oct 2022
Refugees in Malaysia worry government tracking system a ‘trap’
Home minister says all refugees with UNHCR cards must register with its TRIS system, but refugees worry about the risk.
Published On 11 Aug 2022
100 million displaced: ‘Unprecedented plague of human suffering’
The figures combine refugees, asylum seekers, and nearly 60 million people displaced inside their own countries.
Published On 23 May 2022

The UN is faced with doing more with less as international leadership gets tested in the COVID-19 era.

Guterres demands Myanmar military free prisoners and end violence, as he opens a four-week summit on human rights.

Philonise Floyd called on the UN to investigate systemic police violence against African Americans in the US.

Refugee advocates say fear of Rohingya refugees carrying the virus is not an excuse to refuse them asylum.

In DRC, Sister Angelique has been transforming the lives of thousands of Congolese women and children.

Human rights chief says alleged rights violations took place under ‘direct authority’ of top officials in Pyongyang.

Some 350,000 Syrians have fled a renewed Russian-backed offensive in opposition-held Idlib province since December.

China says Bachelet’s call for an investigation into police conduct is interference and inappropriate.

It is the sixth year in a row that more than 1,000 deaths have been registered in a single year.

Rights chief says nearly all deaths reportedly attributable to government forces and allies in Idlib and Hama provinces.

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