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Youth volunteers in Jordan are supporting their communities during the COVID-19 crisis.
© UNICEF/Naua

News in Brief 7 April 2021

7 April 2021
News in Brief
  • COVID-19 cases rise globally for sixth consecutive week 
  • Greater action needed on refugee vaccination, urges UNHCR’s Grandi 
  • Hate speech still rising against Roma despite recognition gains 
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Children in the Republic of the Congo.
©UNICEF/Vincent Tremeau

News in Brief 6 April 2021

6 April 2021
News in Brief
  • Clarity still needed on effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine passports: WHO 
  • Scale of acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, ‘staggering’ 
  • Refugee agency supports health care for 120,000 refugees in Iran  
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Refugees are helping to keep French vineyards in business during the COVID-19 pandemic.
© UNHCR/Kate Thompson-Gorry

Vintage French rugby pros tackle refugee integration in the vineyards

28 March 2021
Migrants and Refugees

An association run by former rugby professionals in the French wine-making region of Bordeaux is supporting the integration of refugees, through career training, work opportunities and regular sports sessions.

IOM personnel at Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. In the background are the tens of thousands of refugees displaced after the fire.
IOM Photo

News in Brief 23 March 2021

23 March 2021
News in Brief
  • UN rushes to help Cox’s Bazar refugees following massive blaze  
  • UN condemns deadly shelling of Syrian children and hospital workers 
  • Inventions boom in ‘assistive tech’ offers wider benefits for all 
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Rescue efforts are on after part of a Himalayan glacier broke away in India’s Uttarakhand province on Sunday, unleashing a torrent of water, rock and debris downstream.
UNDP India

News in Brief 8 February 2021

8 February 2021
News in Brief
  • UN stands ready to support relief, in aftermath of deadly India flash floods 
  • Refugee chief Filippo Grandi urges regularization of displaced Venezuelans 
  • Rights experts insist foreign nationals should be returned from Syria camps 
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Refugees cross into Chad by foot from the Central African Republic (CAR). (file)
© IOM/ Craig Murphy

News in Brief 29 January 2021

29 January 2021
News in Brief
  • Central African Republic crisis forces 200,000 from homes in under two months 
  • ‘Imminent’ Iran execution must be halted, urges UN human rights office 
  • Venezuela: UN rights expert to assess impact of unilateral sanctions  
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An internally displaced child plays in an IDP site in Al-Dhale’e Governorate.
UNOCHA/Mahmoud Fadel

News in Brief 28 January 2021

28 January 2021
News in Brief
  • Escalating hostilities in Yemen’s Hudaydah put thousands of civilians at risk  
  • Paperwork holds up ailing supertanker inspection 
  • Asylum ‘under attack’ at Europe’s borders - UNHCR 
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Africa needs timely access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines.
WHO/Christopher Black

News in Brief 26 January 2021

26 January 2021
News in Brief
  • Mozambique: UN responds as thousands are hit by Cyclone Eloise 
  • Refugee resettlement suffers ‘extreme anomaly’ from pandemic fallout in 2020 
  • UN health agency panel issues key guidance on second COVID vaccine timing 
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A UNHCR staff member ensures Ethiopian refugees in Hamdayet, Sudan, have access to water.
© UNHCR/Olivier Jobard

Many Tigray refugees entering Sudan with nothing but their clothes: UNHCR 

18 January 2021
Interviews

Nearly 60,000 people from Ethiopia’s volatile Tigray region have now crossed the border to remote southeastern Sudan, after more than two months of fighting, many with just the clothes on their backs. 

The emergency has created a massive protection challenge for the UN refugee agency in Sudan, UNHCR, which is doing everything it can to provide what they need, as spokesperson Axel Bisschop tells UN News’s Daniel Johnson. 

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Syrian refugees in Jordan are being resettled in Canada
IOM/Muse Mohammed

Pandemic curbs trend towards ever-increasing migration

15 January 2021
Migrants and Refugees

Travel restrictions and other curbs to movement put in place in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, have put a significant dent in migration figures, but the overall trend shows 100 million more people living outside their countries of origin in 2020, compared to the year 2000, a new UN report revealed on Friday.