Tag: Filippo Grandi
COVID-19: Forced displacement surpassed 80m in mid 2020 – UN
The United Nations estimates that global forced displacement surpassed 80 million at mid-year. The global number of refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) climbed above 80 million at the middle of this year, according to an estimate by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). According to a report on trends in global forced displacement released Wednesday ...UN Refugee Chief Tests Positive For COVID-19
The UN refugee chief said Wednesday that he had tested positive for Covid-19 after leading the first day of the agency’s main annual meeting in person. Filippo Grandi, who kicked off UNHCR’s week-long Executive Committee meeting in Geneva on Monday, told participants via video-link that he would need to continue following the event from home. ...States pledge over $3 billion for refugees – U.N
States have pledged more than $3 billion to support refugees and about 50,000 resettlement places, the United Nations refugee agency said on Wednesday at the end of a ministerial conference. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said that the Global Forum on Refugees had broadened responsibility-sharing for 25.9 million refugees who have fled war ...Migrants: About 115 feared dead, 134 rescued in after worst Mediterranean shipwreck of the year
About 115 people are missing and feared to have drowned and another 134 were rescued by Libyan coast guards and local fishermen after a wooden boat carrying migrants capsized off Libya, a Libyan navy official said on Thursday. Earlier, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said that up to 150 people were feared dead. “The worst ...Photo of drowned migrants trigger debate over Trump asylum policies
U.S President Donald Trump A harrowing photo of a Salvadoran migrant and his young daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border became the focus on Wednesday of a U.S. political debate over President Donald Trump’s asylum policies. The picture of Oscar Alberto Martinez, 25, and his 24-month-old daughter Angie Valeria put ...Nigerian Refugees: UNHRC Concerned Over Eviction Move by Cameroon
The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed grave concerns over plans by Cameroon to evict thousands of Nigerian refugees to Borno. UNHCR said it deplored the reported moves that Cameroon was forcing several thousand Nigerians to return to Borno, adding, it has put the lives of the refugees “at risk”. Cameroon is ...
