“Poland remains the main country of arrival for refugees from Ukraine,” UNHCR spokesperson Olga Sarrado told journalists at a regular press briefing in Geneva. And while the pace has slowed in comparison to early March – when over 100,000 people were arriving per day – May has continued to witness around…
“The world must remember the crisis that Rohingya refugees and their hosts have been facing for the last five years,” Filippo Grandi said after visiting refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char island, in the Bay of Bengal. Bangladesh hosts some one million Rohingya refugees, most of whom fled…
Those in need will be provided with urgently needed shelter, health, cash, protection services and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) support. The situation is also getting worse for migrants in Yemen, especially women – IOM mission chief Over the last seven years, the conflict in Yemen between a Saudi-led pro-Government coalition,…
António Vitorino, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and Andrew Selee, President of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), called for charting a course that balances health security with predictable cross-border movement. Inaction will not only affect future migration but also equitable pandemic recovery, they warned. Call for…
Mr. Guterres was addressing the official opening of a meeting to review progress towards implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, adopted by governments in 2018. People-centred migration policy is about promoting the well-being of migrants and their communities 🫂 ➡️A team in Rome has been providing…
“People have opened their homes and their hearts to the Ukrainians”, he said, in admiration for the hospitality being extended to the refugees. Home away from home UN Photo/Mark Garten During his visit, the UN chief stopped in on a couple hosting refugees in their two-room apartment. Vasiliy and Klavdia…
Speaking at a press conference alongside Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau, the UN chief said: “Moldova is not just another country receiving refugees [and] … I am deeply concerned about the continuation and possible spread of the war Russia is waging in Ukraine, and by…
Since 24 February, over 450,000 refugees have crossed the Ukraine border, and about a hundred thousand have temporarily settled in with Moldova’s four million people. As its citizens await a visit from UN Secretary-General António Guterres tomorrow, UN News visited the country. Transformation From Odessa, Natalia and her one-year-old daughter currently live…
Of the 2021 total, 1,924 people were reported to have died or gone missing on the Central and Western Mediterranean routes, while an additional 1,153 perished or went missing on the Northwest African maritime route to the Canary Islands, according to UNHCR’s newly published report: Protection, saving lives, & solutions…
Six weeks ago, life was easy for Yuliia, her husband Valerii, and their small son Artemko. They had just moved into a new apartment in a quiet, green part of Bucha. She had a job as a hairdresser and loved nothing more than when a client left her salon looking…
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