A ‘significant trend’ has been noted as hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrians returned home amid a drop in the overall level of violence in their home country. Around 500,000 Syrians who were displaced from [ More … ]
The United States has welcomed a tripartite agreement on the voluntary return of Sudanese refugees in Chad. Sudan, Chad and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) signed on 31 May two separate tripartite agreements on the [ More … ]
The United Nations’ refugee agency has urged North African neighbors to provide safe passage to dozens of Syrians who are stranded in a border zone between Algeria and Morocco. The United Nations’ refugee agency on [ More … ]
The General Assembly voted Russia off the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, a stunning rebuke to the country which is increasingly being accused of war crimes over its intervention in Syria. The 193-member General [ More … ]
Seventy-five Syrian refugees arrived Monday in Italy, coming from the camps of the UNHCR in Lebanon, as a part of a humanitarian agreement signed by Rome with Christian communities. Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Paolo [ More … ]
UNHCR High Commissioner Filippo Grandi on Saturday started his second visit to Jordan “as part of a broader mission to the region”, the UN agency said in a statement, according to THE JORDAN TIMES. During [ More … ]
The UN says it has for the first time in weeks delivered aid to thousands of Syrian refugees stranded on the border with Jordan. A group of relief agencies said they had completed delivery of [ More … ]
– UN refugee agency says 3,000 people in Iraq’s northern Kirkuk province have been abducted by notorious terrorist group – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday claimed that the ISIS (Daesh) [ More … ]
More than half of the registered Syrian refugees in Jordan are below the age of 17, placing “tremendous” pressure on the Kingdom’s resources, a UNHCR official said on Tuesday, reported the Jordan Times. Some 338,645 [ More … ]
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Saturday called for an investigation into the circumstances in which a 22-year-old Syrian refugee drowned as he was attempting to cross the Tisza River [ More … ]
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