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Spain’s decision to take in stranded boat welcomed by UN Refugee Agency

11 June 2018
Interviews

Spain’s reported announcement that it will allow a boat to dock carrying hundreds of migrants and refugees that was originally turned away from Italy is a “generous display of solidarity”, the UN Refugee Agency said on Monday.   UNHCR spokesperson Charlie Yaxley spoke with Daniel Johnson.

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Doaa Al Zamel. © Elena Dorfman/UNHCR

UN Gender Focus Special: Syrian refugee's story of survival

26 May 2017
UN Gender Focus

A young Syrian refugee woman’s remarkable story of surviving “one of the worst shipwrecks in the Mediterranean” has been told in a book written by the chief spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR.

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A boat carrying asylum seekers and migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.
UNHCR/L.Boldrini (File Photo)

Doomed sea crossing survivors describe Mediterranean ordeal

20 April 2016
General News

Survivors of one of the worst ever tragedies at sea involving migrants crossing the Mediterranean, in which 500 people reportedly drowned, have begun to describe their ordeal.

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Survivors from a previous Mediterranean crossing, rescued by the Italian Coastguard.
UNHCR/F. Malavolta

Boat victims died one by one, say survivors

18 August 2015
General News

Survivors of a boat tragedy that claimed the lives of 49 migrants have given graphic accounts of fellow passengers dying one by one, migration experts said Tuesday.

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At least 62 dead in deadliest boat tragedy in Red Sea this year – UN refugee agency

6 June 2014
The United Nations refugee agency said today that 62 people are confirmed to have died when their boat foundered while trying to cross the Red Sea from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, making it the deadliest sinking this year.
UNHCR/A. d'Amato

UN deeply concerned at rising deaths from boat accidents in the Mediterranean

13 May 2014
The United Nations today voiced deep concern at the rising death toll from boat accidents in the Mediterranean Sea this year as increasing numbers of asylum-seekers and refugees make the journey on unsafe vessels, often at the hands of ruthless smugglers.
UNHCR/A. Di Loreto (file photo)

UN refugee agency voices concern at deaths at sea following Caribbean boat tragedy

29 November 2013
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has voiced concern at the recent deaths at sea after a boat capsized earlier this week in the Bahamas, the third such incident in the northern Caribbean since October.

UN agency regrets lack of transparency in Italy's return of boat people to Libya

7 May 2009
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today voiced concern after Italy sent some 230 people it rescued yesterday off the waters of Malta back to Libya before a proper assessment of their possible protection needs were carried out.

UN agency calls for action to save boat people off Malta

24 May 2007
The United Nations refugee agency today called attention to the plight of over 50 people – including possibly a number of asylum-seekers – last seen aboard a boat off the south coast of Malta, and urged countries in the region to try to find them.

UNHCR expresses 'shock, sadness' at refugee boat sinking near Indonesia

23 October 2001
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today said it was "shocked and saddened" by the sinking of a boat carrying hundreds of asylum seekers off the Indonesian coast, saying 360 people died in the accident, the vast majority of them women and children trapped in the vessel.