Edited News | UNHCR
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi discusses the findings in UNHCR’s flagship annual report, Global Trends in Forced Displacement. The report, which details the figures in the numbers of refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people as of end 2019, will be launched on...
Statements | UNITED NATIONS
Video message from the UN Special Rapporteur on Racism Ms. Tendayi Achiume for the UN Human Rights Council urgent debate on racism and police brutality
Statements | UNITED NATIONS
Urgent Debate on Systemic Racism and Police Brutality in the United States
Press Conferences | WFP
Impact of COVID-19 in Latin America and WFP’s response: Miguel Barreto, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean
Edited News | UNHCR , UNITED NATIONS
Syrian refugees resort to ever more desperate measures to resist pandemic impact. The COVID-19 crisis has put another 200,000 Syrian refugees in need of emergency assistance in the last three months alone, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday, in an appeal for funding to confront new challenges posed by...
Press Conferences | OHCHR , UNHCR , UNOG , UNCTAD , IOM
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the virtual briefing, attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Human Rights Council (HRC), and the United Nations...
Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
Human Rights Council picks up again after COVID suspension, to hold racism debate. After a three month long COVID-19-enforced break, the Human Rights Council resumed its work at UN Geneva on Monday, giving the green light to a rare Urgent Debate on racism, alleged police brutality and violence...
Edited News | UNICEF , OCHA
YEMEN: Severe funding gaps for humanitarian aid as cases of Covid-19 are on the rise
Press Conferences
UNAIDS press conference 12 June 2020