Migrants and Refugees

Still of Isaiah Bahati (left) and Jean-Pierre Ntegyeye, from One Way Ticket, a documentary about two Congolese refugees resettling in the US.
IOM/Gregoire Gosset

After 20 years of misery as refugees, a one-way ticket to the ‘miracle’ of resettlement

21 December 2019
Africa

Although they spent 20 years living in a refugee camp in Uganda, Jean-Pierre Ntegyeye and Isaiah Bahati never gave up hope of leaving for a better life. Today, with help from the UN migration agency, IOM, their dream has come true, but they haven’t forgotten the plight of those left behind. Their story is told in a new movie, One Way Ticket, screened as part of the Global Migration Film Festival (GMFF).

Steven of Venezuela and three friends attempt to hitchhike to the Paramo de Berlin (3,000m), the highest peak on their journey from Cucuta, Venezuela, to Bogota, Colombia.
IOM/Muse Mohammed

Misery for Venezuelans continues ahead of 2020 elections: UN rights chief Bachelet

18 December 2019
Americas

Demonstrations in Venezuela must be allowed to take place ahead of elections in 2020, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wednesday, citing continued reports of harassment, threats, and detention by intelligence services and security forces.

19-year-old Najla Umda Adam Suleiman, fled with her family to Chad when she was only three years old after the conflict broke out in Darfur.
© UNHCR/Modesta Ndubi

World must ‘reboot’ approach to refugees, first UN Global Forum hears

17 December 2019

The world needs to transform the way it responds to refugee situations and do more for the struggling countries that shelter almost all of them, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, at a high-level forum seeking solutions to a decade of extraordinary mass displacement.

PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival winners at UN Headquarters who were selected for their coverage of migration, diversity and social inclusion. The winning-videos were chosen among 1200+ submissions from almost 70 countries.
UNAOC

UN film festival encourages young people to promote peace, dialogue and empathy

16 November 2019
Global

Demonstrating empathy, humour and intelligence, a group of young film-makers have been recognized for their short videos, which tackle the weighty issues of discrimination, intolerance and misogyny in a creative and entertaining way, at a ceremony held at UN Headquarters.

In Binnish in the Syrian Arab Republic, internally displaced people from Idlib live in a destroyed school while a tanker provides them with water that children transport with small containers.
© UNICEF/Omar Haj Kadour

Hundreds of thousands of civilians at risk in Syria amid ongoing violence in northeast and northwest

8 November 2019
Middle East

Almost daily violence targeting built-up areas and health facilities in Syria continues to threaten the lives of civilians there, UN rights experts and humanitarians said on Friday.

The former UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo in February 1995.
©UNHCR/Panos Moumtzis

Tributes for ‘role model’ former UN refugee agency chief, Sadako Ogata

29 October 2019

The first woman to serve as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, has died in Tokyo at the age of 92, hailed by the UN Secretary-General on Tuesday as a “role model for people across the world.”

Steven of Venezuela and three friends attempt to hitchhike to the Paramo de Berlin (3,000m), the highest peak on their journey from Cucuta, Venezuela, to Bogota, Colombia.
IOM/Muse Mohammed

UN and partners call for solidarity, as Venezuelans on the move reach 4.5 million

23 October 2019
Americas

Since 2015, approximately 4.5 million Venezuelans have fled their country as the Latin American nation's political, humanitarian and economic crisis drags on, creating one of the “direst” displacement crises in the world, the UN and European Union said on Wednesday, ahead of a solidarity conference next week.

Children raise their hands to answer a question in class at a UNICEF learning space in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (8 July 2019).
© UNICEF Patrick Brown

Two years after exodus, Myanmar’s ‘desperate’ Rohingya youth need education, skills: UNICEF

16 August 2019
Asia Pacific

The daily struggle to survive for Myanmar’s Rohingya people in one of the world’s largest refugee settlements, has caused “overwhelming” despair and jeopardized the hopes of an entire generation, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Henrietta Fore, said on Friday.

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.

Farhia Mousa sits with three of her six children, including Nacima, 10-days-old, Abdulahi, 4-years-old, and Nasterha, 2-years-old, in a camp for people displaced by conflict and drought in Dangaroyo, Somalia. (22 May 2019)
© UNICEF_Joe English

Don’t take African generosity towards refugees for granted, says UN refugee chief

24 June 2019
Africa

The international community must not take the generosity of Africans for granted, UN refugee chief, Filippo Grandi, told an informal meeting of Security Council members at UN Headquarters in New York on Monday.