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10 Jun 2024, 6:05 am
IMAGE: Afghan women hold placards as they gather to demand help from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for asylum abroad, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on May 12, 2022. [read post]
7 Jun 2024, 10:12 am
This sentiment has been echoed by the the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2022, highlighting that national cybercrime laws are often used to "restrict freedom of expression, target dissenting voices, justify internet shutdowns, interfere with privacy and anonymity of communications, and limit the rights to freedom of association and peaceful assembly. [read post]
4 Jun 2024, 8:15 am
*"In Pursuit of the Possible: Addressing population flows in the Americas," Remarks by Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at Georgetown University, Washington, DC (June 2024) [text]The silent struggle of internal displacement (Americas Migration Brief, May 2024) [text]- Provides an analysis of data relating to IDPs in the Americas from IDMC's 2024 Global Report on Internal Displacement.Translating Principles… [read post]
1 Jun 2024, 4:40 am
The number of people displaced by war, violence and prosecution has skyrocketed to a staggering 114 million, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi revealed in an address to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Thursday. [read post]
29 May 2024, 4:25 am
He is the most high-profile figure to face charges under the law. [read post]
28 May 2024, 5:27 am
He further encouraged EU partners to implement “the required national procedures for asylum and refugee rights, in cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees”. [read post]
27 May 2024, 11:18 am
” Meanwhile, the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has decried Israel’s “horrific” strike on a camp housing displaced people in Rafah on Sunday. [read post]
22 May 2024, 7:30 am
Opportunity:Webinar: Living in Displacement in the Climate Emergency: Refugees and Climate Shocks, 30 May 2024 [info]Short pieces:Fixing the plastics problem when delivering urgent aid (The Interpreter Blog, May 2024) [text]Towards the recognition climate migrants: Reflections on the African Guiding Principles on the Rights of All Migrants (RLI Blog, April 2024) [text]Reports:Amicus Brief of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for… [read post]
18 May 2024, 11:49 am
Throughout the next three decades the United Nations and some of its affiliated organizations prepared a series of reports on the feasibility of national institutions as instruments for protection and promotion of human rights. [read post]
16 May 2024, 9:19 am
High Commissioner for Refugees published Guidelines for applying the bars to asylum known internationally as the “exclusion clauses” (because they exclude an applicant from being recognized as a refugee under international law). [read post]
13 May 2024, 1:22 pm
UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced that a United Nations staff member was killed in the Gazan city of Rafah on Monday. [read post]
13 May 2024, 10:15 am
Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) stated Saturday that the “claim of safezones is false and misleading” because there is nowhere safe for civilians to go. [read post]
6 May 2024, 1:15 pm
High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Monday called the evacuation order “inhumane. [read post]
27 Apr 2024, 2:44 pm
Members of the Palestinian Civil Defense, an emergency response group in Palestine, called on the United Nations and the international community to conduct an independent investigation of mass graves at Gaza’s Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals in a press conference on Thursday. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 8:57 am
The headquarters office for the Resettlement Support Center for Turkey and the Middle East is in Turkey, as are PRM refugee coordinators and a regional office for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . [read post]
19 Apr 2024, 4:46 am
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR The commissioner general of the U.N. agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) told the U.N. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 12:15 pm
& London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Feb. 2024) [access]"Gaza and the Political and Moral Failure of the Responsibility to Protect," Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Latest Articles, 16 Feb. 2024 [open access]Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the obligation to ensure accountability and justice: Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,… [read post]
25 Feb 2024, 8:15 am
See also related companion page.Migration Governance Insights: Informing People-centred Migration Policies – Executive Summary (IOM, Jan. 2024) [text]MOPAN Assessment Report: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network, Feb. 2024) [access]- Follow link for report, technical annex, UNHCR performance at a glance (in English and French), and press release. [read post]
23 Feb 2024, 4:36 am
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has “reached breaking point,” its commissioner Phillippe Lazzarini said yesterday, due to “Israel’s repeated calls to dismantle UNRWA and the freezing of funding by donors at a time of unprecedented humanitarian needs in Gaza. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 6:20 am
” IMAGE: The United Nations Headquarters, in New York city, on Oct. 18, 2023. [read post]
