BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan 22 (UNHCR) - The fate of millions of Syrian refugees and internally displaced people is in the hands of regional and world powers and they must now act, particularly after ...

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GENEVA, March 15 (UNHCR) - As Syria's war reaches another grim milestone today, refugees fleeing the five-year conflict face greater hurdles to finding safety while international solidarity with its ...

GENEVA – As the world prepares to mark yet another tragic milestone in the brutal Syrian conflict, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, urges the international community to redouble its generous support to ...

GENEVA – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi today welcomed the election by the General Assembly in New York of former President of Iraq Barham Salih as his successor to ...

Filippo Grandi has devoted more than three decades to easing the suffering of refugees. “My pride, after all these years," he says, "is that the centre of this effort of my lifetime has been on people ...

Filippo Grandi rallied his humanitarian colleagues after a year of huge challenges and financial cuts, saying that UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, would not be weakened despite taking a “brutal and ...

OTTAWA, Canada, March 22 (UNHCR) - Marking his first visit to Canada, the United Nations refugee chief congratulated Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his humanitarian leadership over the global ...