Refugees
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Lack of quality data compounds risks facing millions of refugee and migrant children
Mar 3, 2020The widespread lack of quality data on millions of displaced and migrant children is compounding the serious risks they face, a coalition of international organizations announced in New York during the launch of the International Data... -
Refugees and Migrants From Venezuela top Four Million
Jun 10, 2019The number of Venezuelans leaving their country has reached four million, IOM, the International Organization for Migration, and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today. Worldwide, only Syrian refugees, at 5.6 million, surpass Venezuelans as the... -
UNHCR and Qatar Charity sign three agreements in support of the Refugees
Jun 1, 2019UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and Qatar Charity (QC) have signed today three agreements worth USD 4 million, in support of UNHCR operations in Iraq, Bangladesh and Yemen. These agreements were signed at QC’s headquarters in... -
UNHCR expanding arrangements and empowering Rohingya refugees for monsoons
Apr 6, 2019The monsoon rains fall between April and September each year. The role played by Anwar, and other refugee volunteers during the last year’s rains was crucial in helping to keep the community safe. The monsoon reaches... -
Julia Roberts supports London store selling presents for refugees
Nov 27, 2018A pop-up charity shop backed by Julia Roberts has opened in London, letting shoppers buy food, clothing and even schooling for refugees around the world. The ‘Choose Love’ store, run by the Help Refugees charity, opened... -
Denmark expands support for Rohingya refugees and host communities
Nov 1, 2018The Danish Minister for Development Cooperation, Ulla Tørnæs, who has just concluded a joint visit to the refugee camps in Kutupalong-Balukhali, Cox’s Bazar, with the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), David... -
One year on, Rohingya refugees live in dire camps, facing an uncertain future and legal limbo
Aug 24, 2018One year since over 700,000 Rohingya refugees were forced to flee from Myanmar into Bangladesh, the denial of their legal status, coupled with unacceptable living conditions in haphazard makeshift camps, continues to trap refugees in a... -
Third group of Syrian refugees resettled to Croatia
Jul 12, 2018A third group of 24 Syrian refugees landed in Zagreb after leaving Turkey today (10/07) with the support of IOM, the UN Migration Agency, in a continuation of the first ever resettlement programme initiated last year... -
UN Secretary’s visit highlights need of funding in Rohingya camps in Bangladesh
Jul 4, 2018UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim called on the world to support Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps, where IOM, the UN Migration Agency, and UN partner agencies urgently need new funding... -
Ramadan treats unite refugees and locals in Jordan
Jun 16, 2018Dozens of women work busily, their hands forming balls of dough before stuffing them with date paste and molding them into small pillows, while the air around them burbles with the sound of their chatter and...
