Migrants and Refugees

A Sudanese refugee with her child on one of the buses that moved volunteers from the flood-prone Leitchuor and Nip Nip refugee camps in western Ethiopia.
UNHCR/S. Momodu

UN seeks $80 million to support refugees in Ethiopia

8 March 2018
Africa

Two United Nations humanitarian agencies are jointly seeking $80 million to provide food assistance to refugees in Ethiopia, which hosts the second largest number of those in Africa.

Young refugee girl sits for the end of term exams at Mogadishu Primary School in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.
UNHCR/S. Otieno

‘It’s her turn,’ says UN agency, issuing global call to close critical gap in refugee girls’ education

7 March 2018
Global

By secondary-level education, refugee girls are only half as likely as their male peers to enrol in school – even though they make up half of the school-age refugee population, according to a new study released Wednesday by the United Nations refugee agency.

A group of Rohingya refugees including women and small children cross into Bangladesh at Palong Khali in Cox’s Bazar district.
UNICEF/UN0136205/LeMoyne

‘No other conclusion,’ ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas in Myanmar continues – senior UN rights official

6 March 2018
Asia Pacific

The “frenzied” scale of unspeakable violence against the minority Muslim Rohingya community in Myanmar has shifted to a “lower intensity campaign of terror and forced starvation,” seemingly intended to drive the remaining Rohingyas from their homeland, a senior United Nations human rights official has warned.

Villagers watch folk artists perform a street play on the issue of child marriage and the evils of it, at the village square, in Jamua block of the Giridih district of Jharkhand state, India.
UNICEF/Vishwanathan

Urgent need to step-up protection of children in crises – UN rights wing

5 March 2018
Global

Children in crisis situations face a raft of challenges – from family separation and forced recruitment to sexual exploitation and abject poverty – the deputy United Nations human rights chief said Monday, urging immediate action to protect children from the consequences of “all too adult failings.”