Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with UNHCR Chief Barham Salih to discuss strategies to tackle Ukraine’s ongoing energy crisis. The meeting focused on securing international support, improving energy infrastructure, and addressing humanitarian challenges amid the country’s critical energy shortages. Zelensky emphasized the importance of global cooperation to ensure energy stability for civilians.


Zelensky Meets UNHCR Chief Barham Salih to Address Energy Crisis

A new UNHCR report reveals that floods, storms, droughts, and rising heat have displaced 250 million people in just ten years — 70,000 every single day. From Rohingya camps to flooded Brazil, climate change is driving hunger, conflict, and forced migration. The UN warns that without urgent climate finance, millions more could be uprooted by 2050.

Climatic Events Trigger 'Human Rights' Crisis

Following two shipwrecks off the coast of southern Italy on Monday (June 17), 11 migrants died and 64 were reported missing, according to United Nations agencies, the Italian Coast Guard, and a German charity.

Shipwrecks off Italian coast leave 11 dead, 64 missing: UN agencies and Italian Coast Guard report

The United Nations (UN) on Wednesday (June 14) said that a record 110 million people across the world have been forcibly displaced from their homes. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, refugees fleeing Afghanistan and the fight in Sudan have pushed hundreds and thousands of people to seek shelter abroad and those displaced within their own country to an unprecedented level, AFP reported.

Record 110 million people forcibly displaced worldwide, numbers might increase, says UN

As per the United Nations, last month, in Haiti, more than 600 people died in gang violence — around a 28 per cent spike from the number of deaths recorded last quarter.

UN sounds alarm over 'new wave of extreme violence' in Haiti; 600 killed in April

Ninety-two migrants were allegedly forced to cross the Evros river from Turkey into Greece and were later discovered virtually naked and beaten. Greece has blamed Turkey for the incident it described as a "shame on civilisation.

UNHCR 'deeply distressed' by reports of 92 naked migrants at Greece-Turkey border as neighbours exchange blame

The UK has decided to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda. The UNHCR has accused the UK of being dishonest. The UN body is concerned about the rights of people in Rwanda.

The UK to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda

The UK to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda: UNHCR accuses the UK of being dishonest

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR has said that at least 150,000 refugees had fled Ukraine to neighboring countries, such as Poland, Moldova, Hungary and Romania, in the wake of Russia’s assault on Ukraine. WION tells you more.

UN Refugee Agency: At least 150,000 people flee Ukraine to neighboring countries

Dozens of countries called Monday for the UN Human Rights Council to host a special session on Sudan, following a deadly crackdown on mass rallies against last week's military coup.

Countries urge UNHCR to host a special session on Sudan

South Korean actor Jung Woo Sung is doing his bit to support refugees from Afghanistan. The South Korean actor who is the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has made a generous donation to support refugees.

South Korean actor Jung Woo Sung donates to support Afghan refugees

Up to half a million Afghans could flee their homeland by year-end, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday, appealing to all neighbouring countries to keep their borders open for those seeking safety.

Half a million Afghans could flee across borders: UNHCR

The vote on the draft resolution titled ‘Promotion of Reconciliation Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka’ was to be taken on Monday but officials in Geneva

Sri Lanka to face key UN Rights Body resolution today

The chief of United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi on Monday urged the international community to continue aiding Afghanistan or risk “disastrous consequences”.

Global community must help Afghanistan to avoid 'disastrous consequences': UNHCR

UNHCR is urging the world to come out in support of the Rohingya Muslims. Currently seeking Refugee aid in Bangladesh, a crucial donor meeting is going to happen.

WION Dispatch: The world's largest humanitarian crisis, Crucial international meeting on Rohingya

Half of all refugee children were already out of school before the coronavirus hit, and the UN cautioned Thursday the pandemic risked deepening a crisis robbing millions of future prospects.

Pandemic threatens refugee children's limited schooling: UN

Afghan boys sell fresh fruit on carts, signs are written in Dari or Pashto, and restaurants in the bustling bazaar sell Afghan dishes such as Kabuli pulao. But this "mini Kabul" is in Pakistan, which this week marks 40 years of hosting Afghan refugees.

In 'mini Kabul', Afghan refugees mark 40 years in Pakistan

India's permanent representative to the UN Rajiv Chander today slammed Pakistan for interfering in India's internal affairs at the first-ever global refugee forum in Geneva.

Categorically reject unwarranted comments by Pak PM: India at global refugee forum in Geneva

The first ever Global Refugee Forum will open on Tuesday (December 17) in Geneva in a bid to find new approaches to deal with refugees-related issues, as displacement numbers hit a new record in 2019.

UNHCR launch first Global Refugee Forum as displacements reach highest ever level

There are now over 4.5 million Venezuelan refugees and migrants living outside the country according to the UN's refugee agency and the outflow of people shows no signs of slowing down due to political and economic crisis in the South American country.

Venezuelan exodus and need for aid will increase in 2020 -UN

A UN envoy on Thursday offered technical expertise to Bangladesh to assess arrangements on an island where the South Asian country plans to shift about 100,000 Rohingya refugees.

United Nations offers to assess Bangladesh's refugee island plan

Greece must take "urgent" steps to improve "miserable" conditions in its overcrowded island migrant camps, the U.N. refugee chief said Wednesday. "These living conditions need urgent improvement," United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said after visiting camps on Lesbos.

U.N. urges Greece to fix 'miserable' migrant camps

Greece will shut down overcrowded refugee camps on its outlying islands and replace them with more restrictive holding centres, authorities said on Wednesday. Living conditions for thousands of people in camps on five Aegean islands have been decried by aid groups as appalling.

Struggling with influx, Greece to shut down three refugee camps

Funding of $1.35 billion will be needed to provide healthcare, education, nutrition and other services to Venezuelan migrants and to help their hosts in 2020, non-governmental organizations said on Wednesday.

Venezuelan migrants need $1.35 billion in 2020 for basic services - NGOs

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