Migrants and Refugees

© UNICEF/Zerihun Sewunet

25,000 refugees in unsettled Tigray region receive urgent UN food supplies

28 December 2020
Africa

Some 25,000 Eritrean refugees, sheltering in two camps in the unsettled Tigray region of Ethiopia, have received desperately needed food aid for the first time since mid-October.

IOM 2020/Ervin Causevic

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Migrant lives at ‘immediate risk’, warn UN agencies

28 December 2020
Europe

United Nations agencies and humanitarian partners have called on authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to act urgently to help hundreds of migrants, stranded and without shelter, amid freezing winter temperatures. 

© IOM/ Craig Murphy

Chad: New law safeguards 480,000 refugees

24 December 2020
Africa

 The UN refugee agency commended Chad on Friday for adopting its first-ever asylum law, which will enhance the protection of the nearly 480,000 refugees it is hosting by providing key elements for their socio-economic inclusion.

IOM 2020/Ervin Causevic

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Thousands of migrants lose shelter, after camp destroyed in fire

24 December 2020
Europe

The closure and subsequent fire, on Wednesday, at a migrant camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina has left thousands of migrants without shelter and protection, amid plummeting winter temperatures, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported. 

© UNHCR/Moumouni Kone

Malian refugees return to Burkina Faso camp nine months after violent attacks

21 December 2020
Africa

Scores of Malian refugees in Burkina Faso have returned to a camp in the northeast of the country nine months after armed attacks and threats forced them to flee to a neighbouring town, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Monday. 

UN Women/Pornvit Visitoran

Integral to societies, migrants are central to COVID-19 recovery: Guterres

18 December 2020

The UN marks International Migrants Day on Friday, highlighting their essential contribution to societies everywhere, and underlining migrants' central role in recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. 

WFP

Funding needed to halt ‘life threatening crisis’ facing refugees in Kenya 

17 December 2020
Africa

Amidst a “critical shortage” of resources, hundreds of thousands of refugees in Kenya will lack food unless new funds are swiftly received, the UN’s food relief agency warned on Thursday. 

UNICEF/Enri Canaj Magnum Photos

Put me out of a job: UN refugee chief’s challenge to world leaders

15 December 2020
Global

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has challenged world leaders to put him “out of a job” by addressing the root causes that drive millions to flee their homes due to war and insecurity. 

IOM/Muse Mohammed

ILO study finds migrants earn much less than locals, and the gap is widening

14 December 2020

The gap between wages paid to migrant and national workers is big and growing, and may widen further because of the pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a report published on Monday.

George Kraychyk

The Handmaid’s Tale: making a drama out of a crisis

13 December 2020
Global

The Handmaid’s Tale, a critically acclaimed television series which has won 38 Emmy awards, may be about a fictional “alternative reality”, but the show’s creators have gone to great lengths to ensure that references to themes such as climate change, human rights abuses, and refugees, are as real and accurate as possible, by collaborating closely with UN experts.