Migrants and Refugees

A boy begs on the streets of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. (3 June 2019)
© UNICEF/Velasquez

UN agencies welcome regional road map to help integrate ‘continuing exodus of Venezuelans’

8 July 2019
Americas

A new road map adopted by Latin American and Caribbean countries, to help better integrate refugees and migrants from crisis-hit Venezuela into new host societies, drew a warm welcome from two UN agencies on Monday.

Photo: UNHCR/V. Tan
UNHCR/V. Tan

UN rights chief ‘appalled’ by US border detention conditions, says holding migrant children may violate international law

8 July 2019
Americas

Conditions in which migrants and refugees are being held in the United States are appalling, said the UN human rights chief on Monday, underscoring that children should never be held in immigration detention, or separated from their families.

Refugee camps in Cox's Bazar turned to mud after the rains, with some areas completely flooded.
WFP/Gemma Snowdon

Scores of Rohingya refugee shelters in Bangladesh destroyed by flooding

5 July 2019
Asia Pacific

Heavy monsoon rains in Bangladesh have drenched the Cox’s Bazar settlement, home to more than 900,000 Rohingya refugees, destroying some 273 shelters, and injuring 11 people, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday. The huge refugee camp has been hit by three days of non-stop rain, and more heavy downpours are expected throughout next week, with four months of the monsoon season still to go. 

Migrant children walk outside a detention centre located in Tripoli, Libya (file photo).
UNICEF/Romenzi

Six children among 53 confirmed fatalities after Libya detention centre airstrikes: Security Council condemns attack

5 July 2019
Africa

The toll from Tuesday’s reported airstrikes on a detention centre in the suburbs of Tripoli has risen to 53 dead and more than 130 injured among the “severely traumatized” surviving migrants and refugees, UN aid agencies said on Friday, reiterating their appeal to close all such facilities in the embattled country.

Syrian refugee Mohamad Hamza Alemam (left) is receiving baking lessons from Master baker Björn Wiese (wearing cap), at the Backwerkstatt Bakery in Eberswalde, eastern Germany. 4 December 2018.
© UNHCR/Gordon Welters

1.4 million refugees set to need urgent resettlement in 2020: UNHCR

1 July 2019

More than 1.4 million displaced people in over 60 refugee hosting countries will need resettlement next year, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Monday, while also supporting a call for far greater protection for vulnerable LGBTI individuals seeking asylum.