Iran war impact on shipping affecting refugee aid with freight rates soaring, UNHCR says ⊖
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39 days ago
The agency has re-routed sea cargo via Jordan's Aqaba Red Sea port and has switched to land corridors including truck routes from Dubai across the Arabian peninsula and Turkey.
53 days ago
Record number of Rohingya refugees died at sea last year, UNHCR says ⊖⊖
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The UN refugee agency has warned of an 'unmarked graveyard for thousands of desperate Rohingya refugees' in South Asia
54 days ago
Nearly 900 Rohingya refugees dead and missing in shipwrecks in 2025, UNHCR says ⊖
The Rohingya mainly leave from huge camps in Bangladesh, where more than 1 million refugees forced to flee across the border from Myanmar's Rakhine state live in squalid conditions.
5 months ago
Lifting of US sanctions on Syria could spur refugee returns, UNHCR official says ○
The UN refugee agency reports that altogether more than 1 million refugees and nearly 2 million internally displaced Syrians have returned to their homes since Bashar al-Assad's fall.
Sweden’s push for an ex-IKEA CEO to lead UNHCR signals a new refugee order ○
Corporate logic is reshaping refugee protection as states pull back.
6 months ago
UN warns of millions displaced by climate change as COP30 opens in Brazil ⊖
Weather-related disasters have forced a quarter of a billion people to flee in the last decade, says UNHCR.
Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds ⊖⊖
Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger
Climate-related disasters forcibly displaced 250 million people globally over the…
8 months ago
One million Syrian refugees returned home since al-Assad’s fall, UN says ○
According to UNHCR, more than seven million Syrians remain displaced inside the country.
9 months ago
Why are Sudanese refugees returning home despite the civil war? ○
UNHCR’s Mamadou Dian Balde on why Sudanese refugees return home despite war, cholera and collapse of services.
10 months ago
UN refugee agency warns funding cuts may leave 11 million without aid ○
Crisis compounded after United States, which provided 40 percent of UNHCR funding last year, slashed its contribution.