Worldwide levels of forced displacement hit new high: UNHCR - UN News
Jun 12, 2024 · Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said, “Behind these stark and rising numbers lie countless human tragedies. That suffering must galvanise the international community to...
UNHCR’s Grandi urges joint action to tackle soaring displacement
Oct 14, 2024 · As conflict in the Middle East and beyond pushes the number of forcibly displaced people globally to 123 million, UN High Commissioner for Refugees urges States to work together for peace and joint solutions. He urged governments not to succumb to “cynicism and isolation” in response to a proliferation of seemingly intractable conflicts, but instead to work together to find peace and ...
Global Refugee Forum opens amid ‘crisis of humanity’ - UN News
Dec 13, 2023 · UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi delivers his keynote remarks during the orientation session at the Global Refugee Forum 2023. He stressed the need to tackle the root causes...
‘Families ran for their lives’: Syria receives 250,000 refugees fleeing ...
Oct 8, 2024 · The High Commissioner underlines the critical need to mobilise humanitarian aid and substantial resources for early recovery activities, as stipulated in Security Council Resolution. Emergency Appeal Earlier in Damascus, Mr. Grandi launched an inter-agency emergency appeal for $324 million to support all those fleeing into Syria and their host ...
Global Refugee Crisis Growing Worse, with Aid Workers ... - United Nations
May 30, 2024 · Stressing the grave and unprecedented challenges to peace and security, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees told the Security Council in a briefing today that 2024 is even worse...
High Commissioner's closing statement to the seventy-fifth …
3 days ago · Madam Chair, Distinguished delegates, Colleagues and friends, As we conclude another session of the Executive Committee, let me thank all of you for your engagement, your support, and for the frank exchanges during the week. I, along with the senior UNHCR team, listened closely to every single one of your statements. And you heard me, I replied to all 152 statements during the general debate ...
UN refugee chief urges states to cut reliance on border controls …
GENEVA, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. refugee agency warned on Monday that displacement crises in Lebanon and Sudan could worsen, but said tighter border measures could not be the only...
Global Trends Report 2022 | UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
UNHCR's Global Trends report presents key statistical trends and the latest official statistics on refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people worldwide.
Briefing Security Council, High Commissioner for Refugees …
Nov 2, 2022 · The Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine has driven the fastest, largest displacement witnessed in decades, with some 14 million people forced from their homes since 24 February, Filippo...
UNHCR: Global displacement hits another record, capping decade …
Jun 16, 2022 · By the end of 2021, those displaced by war, violence, persecution, and human rights abuses stood at 89.3 million, up 8 percent on a year earlier and well over double the figure of 10 years ago, according to UNHCR’s annual Global Trends report.
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