These 10 refugees will compete at the 2016 Olympics in Rio
For the first time, a team of refugee athletes will compete under the Olympic flag. Since the modern Olympics began in 1896, over 200 national teams have vied for glory at the Summer and ...
Mojtaba dreams of finding a cure for cancer
Mojtaba, 22 years old: “The journey to Europe was very tough. I was only 13 at the time. I lost my older brother on the way. He drowned on the crossing between Turkey and Greece. ...
Finally, a safe place to be gay
Walking down the street while holding hands with his boyfriend could have gotten Subhi Nahas tortured and killed in his hometown of Idlib, Syria, where he says hardline militias target gay men and execute ...IKEA Brighter Lives for Refugees campaign raises 30.8 million euros for renewable energy sources for refugee families
GENEVA, 18.01.16—IKEA Brighter Lives for Refugees campaign raises 30.8 million euros for renewable energy sources for refugee families IKEA’s global campaign has raised 30.8 million euros for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to provide ...
Filippo Grandi takes helm as UN High Commissioner for Refugees
GENEVA, Jan 4 (UNHCR)—Filippo Grandi, a UN official who has worked in refugee and political affairs in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, began his five-year term as UN High Commissioner for Refugees on ...
UNHCR leads in LGBTI refugee, asylum seeker protection
GENEVA, Dec 24 (UNHCR)—The UN Refugee Agency is leading the way in delivering protection to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) persons in forced displacement with the rolling out of a new training ...
2015 likely to break records for forced displacement – study
GENEVA, Dec 18 (UNHCR)—With almost a million people having crossed the Mediterranean as refugees and migrants so far this year, and conflicts in Syria and elsewhere continuing to generate staggering levels of human ...
Ivorian returns resume from Liberia after Ebola outbreak
PROLLO, Côte d’Ivoire, Dec 18 (UNHCR)—The UN Refugee Agency has resumed the voluntary repatriation of tens of thousands of Ivorian refugees from Liberia, after a pause of more than a year because land borders ...