Venezuelan Warao refugee families arrive at a newly opened UN shelter in the Tarumã-Açu neighbourhood of Manaus, northern Brazil.

© UNHCR/Felipe Irnaldo

Refugees disproportionately exposed to COVID impact: Guterres

19 June 2021

Migrants and Refugees

Everyone has a duty to help refugees rebuild their lives after a particularly difficult year for so many – that’s the message from UN Secretary-General António Guterres, to mark World Refugee Day on 20 June.

Venezuelan Warao refugee families arrive at a newly opened UN shelter in the Tarumã-Açu neighbourhood of Manaus, northern Brazil.

© UNHCR/Felipe Irnaldo

News in Brief 18 June 2021

18 June 2021

Refugees disproportionately hit by COVID: Guterres
Famine risk spikes amid conflict, COVID and funding gaps
UN rights office OHCHR condemns targeting of civilian infrastructure in Yemen

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A Rohingya refugee family sit in the doorway of their new monsoon-ready shelter in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

© UNHCR/Vincent Tremeau

World Refugee Day: End conflict that drives ‘appalling’ displacement numbers

19 June 2020

Migrants and Refugees

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has reminded countries of their fundamental obligation to protect the nearly 80 million people worldwide forced to flee their homes due to conflict, persecution and other crises.

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South Sudanese refugees sit at the Nyumanzi reception centre in Adjumani in northern Uganda. File

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Water scarcity a problem in Uganda camps for South Sudan refugees

20 June 2017

Water scarcity is a huge challenge for humanitarian workers in Arua district in northern Uganda whose job is to welcome refugees from South Sudan.

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The new Portal at the United Nations.

Janie Cangelosi

'Portals' connects people from all over the world

21 June 2016

A new innovation in communications technology is connecting people from all over the world, from the United States to Iraq, and from Cuba to Kenya.

Michelle Moghtader is the Co-founder of Shared Studios, the organization behind the project, called Portals.

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Train heading through the Balkans (2015). The image represents the sense of longing present in many of the refugees from Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan.

Giles Duley/UNHCR

A photographer's search for "normalcy" in refugees’ lives

20 June 2016

“A lot of photographers travel to places and they want to show the differences between us” and the people caught in conflict.

That’s according to Giles Duley, a British photographer who instead aims to show our similarities.

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