resettlement

Thirty-two-year-old Syrian refugee Wafaa pins her three-year-old daughter Yasmine's hair at their home in Barja, Lebanon. They are awaiting resettlement to Norway.
© UNHCR/Diego Ibarra Sánchez

Refugee resettlement numbers fall to lowest in two decades: UNHCR 

19 November 2020
Migrants and Refugees

Refugee resettlement numbers will be at a “record low” this year, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday, with only  15,425 people resettled in the first nine months of 2020, compared to more than 50,000 in 2019. 

People are severely food insecure in Burkina Faso, notably in the conflict-hit northern regions.
OCHA/Otto Bakano

News in Brief 5 February 2020

5 February 2020
News in Brief
  • 'Tremendous gap' between refugee resettlement and placements: UNHCR
  • UN refugee chief wraps up visit to three countries in the Sahel
  • WHO and UNICEF support massive measles campaign in South Sudan
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A Syrian father stands with his children at Bardarash camp in Duhok, Iraq, a day after arriving.
© UNHCR/Hossein Fatemi

Refugee resettlement: ‘Tremendous gap’ persists between needs, and spaces on offer

5 February 2020
Migrants and Refugees

Although around 1.4 million refugees are estimated to be in urgent need of resettlement worldwide, only 63,696 were resettled through the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) last year - that's only 4.5 per cent  -  due to a continuing shortage of offers of sanctuary from governments across the world.