News Archives
Read the current and archived releases from UNHCR – we provide a wide range of information about the UN Refugee Agency’s activities, including updates from news conference, news by our staff written from some of the world’s most remote locations, etc. At the same time, do not miss what is happening next to you – in Hong Kong. Please visit this page regularly.
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UNHCR deeply saddened at loss of life and destruction from Afghanistan earthquake
23 Jun 2022 -
UNHCR: Global displacement hits another record, capping decade-long rising trend
17 Jun 2022Despite some signs of progress, the speed and scale of forced displacement is outpacing solutions for refugees
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Forced displacement hit record high in 2021 with too few able to go home
16 Jun 2022The number of people forced to flee violence, war and persecution, is outpacing the available solutions.
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UNHCR’s Grandi urges redoubled support for Rohingya refugees, host communities in Bangladesh
7 Jun 2022 -
Ukraine, other conflicts push forcibly displaced total over 100 million for first time
23 May 2022 -
Statement on risks of trafficking and exploitation facing refugees from Ukraine attributed to UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection
12 Apr 2022The following statement is attributed to Gillian Triggs, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees calls for immediate end to Ukraine war, which has uprooted over 10 million people
31 Mar 2022 -
Football unites in global appeal for the United Nations response to Ukraine
29 Mar 2022As the number of refugees fleeing Ukraine approaches four million, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and World Food Programme (WFP) launch the Football for Ukraine Emergency Appeal’.
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Eleven years on, mounting challenges push many displaced Syrians to the brink
15 Mar 2022This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
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Imagining Syria
15 Mar 2022With nearly two million Syrian refugee children aged 11 or under having little or no memory of home, we asked some of them to draw what Syria means to them.