Migrants and Refugees

An 11-year-old boy finds relief from the summer heat by playing in a fountain in a historic part of the city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. (file)
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Friday’s Daily Brief: More climate action says Guterres, migrant children dangers, Ebola fight, record-setting weather

28 June 2019

This Friday, we cover: UN chief appeals for stronger climate action commitment; report on migrant children deaths and disappearances; Ebola fight in DR Congo as violence goes on; and global over-heating. 

Records show that nearly 1,600 children have died around the world in search of a better future since 2014.
IOM/Francesco Malavolta

One migrant child reported dead or missing every day, UN calls for more protection

28 June 2019
Global

Around 1,600 children were reported dead or missing between 2014 and 2018 – an average of almost one every day – but many more go unrecorded, a new UN report revealed on Friday.

A boy plays in a UNICEF-supported shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, where migrant children from Mexico and Central America are provided psychosocial support. (June 2019)
© UNICEF/Balam-ha Carrillo

After Rio Grande tragedy, UNICEF chief highlights ‘dire’ detention centres on US-Mexico border

27 June 2019
Americas

The shocking image of a drowned Central American migrant and his infant daughter on the banks of the river dividing Mexico and the United States, continues to evoke strong reactions, the latest from the head of the UN Children’s Fund.

A United Nations Mine Action Service team team visits mine clearance site in Central Equatoria, South Sudan.
UNMISS/JC McIlwaine

Wednesday's Daily Brief: migration tragedy in the Rio Grande, drugs report, Torture Victims Day

26 June 2019
Global

Top news, this Thursday are: the migration debate spurred by the tragic image of a drowned man and his daughter in the Rio Grande; the Khashoggi killing discussed at the Human Rights Council; key findings from the latest UN report on drugs; updates from South Sudan and Mali; International Day in Support of Victims of Torture; and an event on tolerance in at UN headquarters in New York.

Qurtoba School inside the closed Israeli Military zone in H2 area in Hebron, the West Bank. .Entrance to school
UNRWA/Marwan Baghdadi

Monday’s Daily Brief: human rights in the Near East and a Forum for Refugees

24 June 2019
Global

Monday’s top stories include: human rights issues in Syria, Iraq and the Occupied Palestinian Territory; a global forum to find coordinated solutions to the plight of refugees worldwide; the election of the new head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

Farhia Mousa sits with three of her six children, including Nacima, 10-days-old, Abdulahi, 4-years-old, and Nasterha, 2-years-old, in a camp for people displaced by conflict and drought in Dangaroyo, Somalia. (22 May 2019)
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Don’t take African generosity towards refugees for granted, says UN refugee chief

24 June 2019
Africa

The international community must not take the generosity of Africans for granted, UN refugee chief, Filippo Grandi, told an informal meeting of Security Council members at UN Headquarters in New York on Monday.

Narun Nahar sits at her sewing machine in Kutupalong refugee settlement. She fled Myanmar with her family, but her husband and father were killed on the way, leaving Narun and her mother widowed. She lives in Kutupalong refugee settlement with her two sons and daughter, while her mother lives nearby with her sisters. (27 May 2019)
© UNHCR/Kamrul Hasan

Thursday's Daily Brief: World Refugee Day, Middle East peace marred, Epilepsy report, Cities #WithRefugees initiative and Ebola-response funding gap in DR Congo

20 June 2019

This Thursday, we cover: World Refugee Day, Peace in the Middle East marred by obstacles, UN health agency’s report on epilepsy, UN refugee agency update on Cities #WithRefugees initiative and World Health Organization’s flags Ebola-response funding gap in DR Congo.

On 1 October 2018 at the Junaina makeshift camp in northern rural Idlib, in the Syrian Arab Republic, girls study in a tent school where a total of 350 children between the ages of 7 and 14 are able to go back to learning.
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Teachers need more training to support traumatized refugee and migrant students, says UN on World Refugee Day

20 June 2019

On World Refugee Day, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is calling for more support to fill the gaps in training for teachers on trauma and psychosocial assistance for migrant and refugee students.

Venezuelans queue up to get an entry stamp in their passports at the Ecuador-Peru border. (13 June 2019)
© UNHCR/Hélène Caux

Record displacement shows ‘we're almost unable to make peace’, warns UN refugee agency chief

19 June 2019
Global

A record 70.8 million people fled war, persecution and conflict in 2018, UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi said on Wednesday, appealing for greater international solidarity to counter the fact that “we have become almost unable to make peace”. 

Each morning, around 5 am, hundreds of boys and girls cross the border from Venezuela to head to the buses that will take them to school in Cucuta, Colombia. (April 2019)
UNICEF/Arcos

Record number of Venezuelans arrive in Peru: UN steps up response

16 June 2019
Americas

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has sent extra teams this week to the border between Peru and Ecuador to support the authorities, as an unprecedent number of Venezuelan refugees and migrants – over 15,000 – have entered Peru this week.