UN Refugee Chief Encouraged by Changes in US Resettlement Program
WASHINGTON – U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi says the asylum system in the United States has become “unmanageable” and that his agency supports “a gradual improvement towards a more effective and humane migration system.” In an inter…
Read MoreSpecial Rapporteur Tells Human Rights Council that Serious Human Rights Issues Persist in Eritrea
Council Concludes Interactive Dialogue with High Commissioner for Human Rights on her Report on the Central Role of the State in Responding to PandemicsThe Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker…
Read MoreUNHCR Applauds Somalia’s Open-door Refugee Policy
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Three decades of violence have left 2.9 million of Somalia’s citizens internally displaced, but the country is also home to 25,000 refugees, including 6,800 Yemenis and over 700 Syrians.Faith Kasina of the U.N.’s refugee agency, UN…
Read MoreTigray Families Displaced by War, Economic and Social Crisis
SHIRE, ETHIOPIA – Hundreds of displaced families trampled down the stairs carrying stained mattresses, logs and kindling for cooking and sacks of clothing and food. The families, more than 5,000 people in all, had fled battles in the northern Tigray…
Read MoreUN Agency Says Cameroon Home to Half a Million Refugees
YAOUNDÉ – Marking World Refugee Day, June 20, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the UNHCR, is calling on host communities to show more sympathy and love for those fleeing crises in their home country and who are now threatened by COVID-19. The UNHCR s…
Read MoreCameroon Sickle Cell Patients Say They Can Live Longer
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON – Hundreds of sickle cell disease patients in Cameroon are using World Sickle Cell Day, June 19, to teach their neighbors that people with the disease can live longer, contrary to popular beliefs and stigma that label them as witches …
Read MoreAfrica Appeals for Vaccines to Combat Third Wave of COVID-19
GENEVA – African health officials are urgently appealing for vaccines to combat a third wave of COVID-19 surging across the continent.The World Health Organization reports the number of African COVID-19 cases has exceeded 5 million and the disease has …
Read MoreWHO Declares End to Second Ebola Outbreak in Guinea
The World Health Organization officially announced Saturday the end of Guinea’s second Ebola outbreak, which was declared in February and claimed 12 lives.At 16 confirmed cases and seven probable infections, according to WHO figures, the limited size o…
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