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UN Refugee Agency Assistant High Commissioner for Operations.

Geneva, Switzerland
unhcr.org
Joined October 2016
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  1. 2 hours ago

    Statement by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on conclusion of formal consultations on the global compact on refugees: via

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  2. 2 hours ago

    As Mediterranean Sea arrivals decline and death rates rise, UNHCR calls for strengthening of search and rescue: via

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  3. Jun 26

    Follow as we think together the evolution of + NGO operational and advocacy partnership for transformative protection +solutions outcomes for in the face of rapid technological changes, mixed migration flows +challenging geopolitical realignments.

    Only two days to go until the start of the Consultations!
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  4. Jun 26

    Heading into our this week, we underscore the vital importance of our NGO partners in realizing protection and solutions for those who need them through their local rootedness, specialization and visible home-based and international solidarity.

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  5. Jun 23

    To all Team, thank you most sincerely for hosting and supporting a memorable mission and, most of all, for your stupendous work on behalf of the people is entrusted to protect and find solutions for in . Merci encore à vous tous.

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  6. Jun 23

    Delighted thru this gesture to add to the ongoing “Green Refugee Camp” reforestation project w/ funding + partners + to restore severely degraded lands in and around camp w/ 40,000 trees planted over 20 ha.

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  7. Jun 23

    These young Nigerian refugee girls I met in refugee camp, among the 90,000 Nigerian refugees in all in the Far North region , underlined education as the most important need that our collective response should secure for them.

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  8. Jun 23

    Some 90,000 Nigerian fleeing Boko Haram activities have been welcomed + hosted in the Far North of . In meeting w/ Regional Governor Midiyawa Bakary, I underscored access to asylum, repatriation + protection due diligence in a complex security environment.

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  9. Jun 20

    Meeting w/ Ambassador Henry Barlein provided opportunity 2 echo gratitude for vital + financial +other tangible + intangible contributions that support protection, assistance and solutions objectives for + their hosts in .

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  10. Jun 20

    Am grateful to Minister Atanga Nji Paul of Territorial Administration for our very constructive discussion + agreement on key questions and steps in Govt + cooperation to better protect, assist and find solutions for the 360,000 refugees in the country.

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  11. Jun 20

    Following joint Govt, + launch in of a workshop on the Govt’s integrated approach 4 the IDA18 refugee window grant, the respective Principals explained the purposes of the grant, highlighting inclusive + respective priorities.

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  12. Jun 20

    . is 1st recipient of allocation under its IDA18 window for refugees and host communities. Minister Alamine Amey for Economy and Planning elaborated Govt’s implementation of the grant for refugees’ inclusion, self-reliance + coexistence w/host communities.

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  13. Jun 20

    Honored to have met w/ Hon Mbella Mbella, Minister and to hear strong reiteration of ’s asylum + refugee protection policy + that repatriation will take place only on refugees’ free choice in safety, dignity + tripartite agreement with origin country + .

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  14. Jun 20

    Marking in Ndokayo w/some of the 241,000 Central African refugees living peacefully among host communities underlined that the virtually forgotten and its humanitarian consequences, including refugees, rather call 4 strong international attention.

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  15. Jun 20

    Even with confidence that we know their needs, problems + aspirations, nothing better assures the relevance of our programmes for than listening directly and sincerely 2 them. Here, I met w/ at a health centre in Mandjou newly built w/ support.

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  16. Jun 20

    Renewing gratitude 2 Govt and people for hosting Central African refugees, I reiterated our determination 2 drive for their improved inclusion in society now given a big boost by 1st allocation under its IDA18 window 4 refugees of $130m to Cameroon.

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  17. Jun 20

    Delighted to have joined refugees in to mark + myself to draw on the inspiration and positive embrace of life they radiate notwithstanding their tough experience of refuge.

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  18. Jun 16

    . requirements for its activities to protect, assist and find solutions for in are $86.7 million. As of 13 June 2018, received contributions amount to $17.2 million or only 20%. This is strongly appreciated but more is urgently required.

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  19. Jun 16

    The 600,000 Central African in , , and +700,000 internally displaced are virtually forgotten. This week, I will review the plight of the 250,000 in Cameroon. Will also visit w/ Nigerian refugees in the North.

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  20. Jun 14

    Or, when those private boats are obliged to become engaged as the only option to rescue and save lives, that they can count on States predictably to provide safe and secure disembarkation according to the primary obligations set down in international law.

    A responsibility-sharing arrangement for disembarkation among the countries must be found to prevent a situation where private boats will stop responding to rescue calls
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