More than 1.4 million displaced people in over 60 refugee hosting countries will need resettlement next year, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Mo
1.4 million refugees set to need urgent resettlement in 2020: UNHCR
Moratorium call on surveillance technology to end ‘free-for-all’ abuses: UN expert
Surveillance technology should be banned immediately until “effective” national or international controls are put in place to lessen its harmful impac
Record displacement shows ‘we're almost unable to make peace’, warns UN refugee agency chief
A record 70.8 million people fled war, persecution and conflict in 2018, UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi said on Wednesday, appealing for great
FROM THE FIELD: Survival in Yemen against all odds
Fawaz, just 18-months old, suffered from severe acute malnutrition and was on the brink of death. In war-torn Yemen, he was one of hundreds of thousan
‘Complacency is still strong’ over stopping genocide, says top UN adviser
The current rise in hate speech, racial tensions and identity-based violence is alarming, the UN Special Adviser on preventing genocide said on Friday
UN Official to Europe: Find Consensus on Migrants
ROME —The top U.N. refugee official says Europe has to agree on how to deal with migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea. After two days of t...
Hungarian government ‘fuels discrimination against migrants’, say UN human rights experts
New laws in Hungary, and Government attacks on civil society in the country, fuel “hostility, xenophobia, and discrimination against migrants, asylum
New UN rights chief pledges to push back on ‘centuries of prejudice and discrimination’
The UN’s newly appointed High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, intends to push back “centuries of prejudice and discrimination” again
Violence at school an ‘unforgettable lesson’ faced by more than half the world’s children: UNICEF
Around 150 million school children aged 13-15 are the victims of violence from their peers, says a new report from the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF.
UNITED NATIONS CONDEMN “RE-EDUCATION CAMPS” FOR UYGHURS
The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination denounces mass detention of Uyghur Muslims in its report on China On August 30, ...
Half the world’s refugee children not in school, UN agency finds
With more and more children forced to leave their homes, over half of the world’s school-aged refugees are now out of education, the United Nations re
UN chief calls for Security Council to work with Myanmar to end ‘horrendous suffering’ of Rohingya refugees
Despite the efforts made by the United Nations over the past year to help create safeguards for all communities in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, it...
Rohingya emergency one year on: UN says thousands of lives saved, but challenges remain
Significant progress has been made in protecting hundreds of thousands Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in the 12 months since they fled violence in My
UN rights experts call on Russia to release Ukrainian film-maker whose life is in ‘imminent danger’
A Ukrainian film-maker whose outspoken criticism of Russia’s continued annexation of Crimea has landed him in jail, prompted United Nations human ...
A torture scandal makes Russia pay attention
Last month, a gruesome torture scandal broke out in Russia — one that finally means the authorities cannot continue to ignore the gravity of the p...
UN Flies Refugees from Libya to Europe, Where More Uncertainty Awaits
ROME — The U.N. refugee agency has evacuated more than 1,000 highly vulnerable people from Libya in a three-month operation that began last November.