Calling 2003 “a good year in a bad world," the head of the United Nations refugee agency said today significant progress has been made toward finding lasting solutions for some of the 20 million people currently of concern to the agency despite increasing danger for humanitarian workers.
The United Nations refugee agency and other humanitarian organizations today began a three-day operation to move displaced Liberians to new camps from a stadium that once housed 47,000 people uprooted by fighting around Monrovia, the capital.
With some of the hundreds of Afghans and Iraqis detained on the remote Pacific Island of Nauru staging a hunger strike, the United Nations refugee agency today appealed for a dignified response to "what is becoming a human tragedy."
With unresolved crises making “enormous demands,” the United Nations refugee agency today launched a $1 billion appeal, $70 million more than in 2003, to fund its work for next year to care for more than 20.5 million refugees and other people worldwide.
The United Nations refugee agency expressed concern today about the fate of an estimated 1,800 refugees who have been stranded for seven months in camps near the border between Iraq and Jordan.
The head of the United Nations refugee agency issued a stark warning today that a crucial piece of European Union (EU) asylum legislation risked resulting in a substantial deterioration in standards – to the point of being at variance with established international law.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today that Australia had shirked its international obligations when its navy prevented 14 boat people from seeking asylum there at the weekend.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers met today with Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir to discuss repatriation prospects for more than half a million refugees who have fled two decades of civil war between the government and southern groups in Africa’s largest country.
A new set of European Union (EU) rules on family reunification may discriminate against certain categories of refugees and could keep families unnecessarily apart, according to the United Nations refugee agency.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Kingdom Government have embarked on a resettlement programme that will enable some West Africans in need of special protection to reside in the European country.
