UN refugee boss warns of ‘severe cuts’ without immediate new funding
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The UN refugee agency will have to make “severe cuts” unless it gets extra funding soon, its chief said on Monday, warning cuts could lead to more malnutrition and child marriages as well as unrest in some of the world’s poorest regions. The war in Ukraine has sent millions fleeing, and there are […]
Don’t forget other crises with Ukraine focus, UN warns
Brussels, BelgiumReuters The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has warned this week that countries focused on helping Ukraine should not ignore other crises, which were likely to worsen due to the war. Filippo Grandi said on Friday that the “colossal crisis” in Ukraine would raise the number of displaced people globally well above the […]
Ukraine crisis gives chance to shift away from “toxic” narratives towards refugees, UN agency says
Reuters The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed the response by advanced countries to the Ukrainian refugee crisis and urged them to act in a similar way towards refugees from other war zones, regardless of nationality, race or religion. The number of people fleeing Ukraine since Russia invaded on 24th February has climbed to more than […]
Agencies distribute food, blankets, cash as hunger and cold threaten Afghanistan
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters Aid agencies delivered food, blankets and cash to hundreds of displaced families in Kabul on Wednesday as humanitarian assistance begins to trickle into Afghanistan following warnings the country faces potentially catastrophic famine this winter. The distribution of aid to 324 families represents a tiny fraction of the needs in Afghanistan, which faces a […]
“A fantasy” to think UN can fix Afghanistan, Guterres says
United NationsReuters United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday said any suggestion the world body can solve Afghanistan’s problems is “a fantasy” and that its capacity to mediate for a more inclusive Taliban government is limited. Asked in an interview with Reuters a month after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan from a Western-backed government […]
Amid pandemic, number of people forced to flee homes has risen, says UN
New York City, USReuters The number of people forced to flee their homes due to conflict, persecution and human rights abuses has doubled in the past decade to reach 82.4 million at the end of last year, the United Nations said on Friday. “In the year of COVID, in a year in which movement was […]