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UN agencies call on Pakistan to protect Afghan refugees

·October 8, 2023·1 min read

Amid a “severe humanitarian crisis”, Afghanistan currently faces several human rights challenges, particularly for women and girls, according to the UN. Pakistan’s new plans would have “serious implications” for all who have been forced to leave the country and may face serious protection risks upon their return, the UN refugee...

Armenia: UN launches urgent appeal to help refugees fleeing Karabakh

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·October 7, 2023·2 min read

“We call upon the international community to urgently support refugees and their hosts,” said Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. “International support is crucial to sustain this welcome and to enable us to respond to immediate needs and to also build upon the resilience of this population.” Following the...

Sudan: Child deaths rise, concern intensifies for refugees after 100 days of battle

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·July 24, 2023·1 min read

The UN agency added that there have been more than 2,500 severe violations of children’s rights – an average of more than one an hour – in a country where 14 million youngsters need aid relief. “As we reach more than 100 days since the conflict in Sudan escalated, we...

Funding ‘simply not enough’ for Rohingya refugees, UN agencies report

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·July 21, 2023·2 min read

In March, the value of the food vouchers for camp residents was reduced from $12 per person per month to $10, and in June, to just $8; the equivalent of 27 cents a day. “The ration cuts are our last resort. Many donors have stepped forward with funding but what...

Sudan crisis: You don’t dare ask refugees where the men have gone, say UN aid teams

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·July 11, 2023·2 min read

From the World Food Programme (WFP), Chad Country Director Pierre Honnorat said that 20,000 people crossed into Chad just last week. Speaking to journalists via Zoom from the Zabout refugee camp in Goz Beida, Mr. Honnorat described desperate scenes: “We can see that they have suffered, many lost family members,...

Bangladesh must suspend plans to return Rohingya refugees to Myanmar: Rights expert

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·June 9, 2023·1 min read

Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, insisted that current conditions there were “anything but conducive” for the return of Rohingya refugees. Death trap He stressed that the very generals who had launched “genocidal” attacks against the Rohingya, causing hundreds of thousands to...

UN in Bangladesh decries devastating new round of rations cuts for Rohingya refugees

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·June 5, 2023·2 min read

The cuts will reduce the value of rations provided to Rohingya refugees to $8 per month, or 27 cents per day. At the beginning of the year, refugees were receiving a ration of $12 per person per month, which was just enough to meet daily needs, but on 1 March,...

UN agency for Palestine refugees on verge of financial collapse

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·June 4, 2023·3 min read

Chronic underfunding over the past decade, and resultant severe austerity measures, mean UNRWA is already operating with a $75 million shortfall, putting its lifesaving programmes across the Middle East at risk. “As I address you today, I do not have the funds to keep our schools, health centres and other...

Canada: Over 30,000 Afghan refugees arrive with IOM’s support

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·April 14, 2023·1 min read

IOM has worked closely with the Government of Canada and other partners to safely resettle Afghans in the country since August 2021. “The safe and dignified resettlement of refugees globally has been a central part of IOM’s work for more than 70 years and we are proud to be part...

New settlement opens for latest Somali refugees in Ethiopia

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·April 12, 2023·2 min read

Mr. Guterres’s appeal came as the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, warned about the ongoing crisis faced by people displaced by violence from Somalia to Ethiopia. Relocation for the most vulnerable has begun, said UNHCR, after an uptick in violence in northern Somalia’s Lascanood city pushed close to 100,000 people to...

Food rationing for Rohingya refugees a ‘matter of life and death’: rights expert

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·March 2, 2023·2 min read

The development follows the UN World Food Programme (WFP)’s announcement that it would be cutting back on assistance to those sheltering in the vast Cox’s Bazar camp complex from 1 March because of a lack of funding. “These rations cuts are a stain on the conscience of the international community,” said Tom Andrews, UN...

Saudi Arabia a strategic partner in UN support for Palestine refugees, amid concern over escalating violence

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·February 1, 2023·1 min read

In a first since 2020, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini visited Saudi Arabia on 28 and 29 January at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Longtime Saudi solidarity with Palestine refugees topped the agenda of his talks with the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Waleed ElKhereji, and the Supervisor-General...