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UNHCR’s Grandi On Need For ‘Panoramic’ Approach To Mixed Movements
Friday, 21 April 2023, 7:04 pm | UNHCR
Melbourne, 21 February 2023 "Far too often, rich countries have a myopic approach to global forced displacement and population movements, focusing overwhelmingly on border controls." Thank you Michelle, for your introduction and thank you all ... More >>
UNHCR News Comment On The Release Of Refugees From Detention
Friday, 8 April 2022, 6:11 pm | UNHCR
Adrian Edwards, UNHCR Representative for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, in Canberra: UNHCR welcomes the Australian Government’s decision to release 26 refugees from detention facilities across the country this week. UNHCR has ... More >>
UNHCR Submission On The Migration Amendment Bill 2020
Thursday, 18 June 2020, 6:40 pm | UNHCR
The UNHCR Multi-Country Representation in Canberra has recently made a submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee’s Inquiry into the Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) ... More >>
UNHCR Welcomes New Zealand’s Positive Budget Announcement For Refugees
Saturday, 16 May 2020, 6:58 am | UNHCR
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes New Zealand’s funding to extend and expand the Community Organisation Refugee Sponsorship (CORS) pilot for another three years. Communities play a vital role in helping families who have fled their countries because ... More >>
UNHCR Regional Bureau On Maritime Movements Of Refugees And Asylum-seekers
Friday, 24 April 2020, 6:33 am | UNHCR
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is urging greater coordination and responsibility-sharing by states to address the maritime movements of refugees and asylum-seekers in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea. We are increasingly concerned by reports of failure ... More >>
UN Refugee Agency ‘rapidly Adjusting’ The Way It Works Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Thursday, 2 April 2020, 9:15 am | UNHCR
Venezuelan refugees and migrants practice using hand sanitiser, distributed by the UN Refugee Agency at a shelter in Manaus, Brazil. ©UNHCR/Felipe Irnaldo With COVID-19 already having a significant impact on its field operations, the UN refugee agency ... More >>
“The Time To Act Is Now” – UN Experts Urge Men And Boys To Become Women’s Rights Defenders
Saturday, 7 March 2020, 12:47 pm | UNHCR
GENEVA (6 March 2013) – A group of UN experts* has called on men around the world to be a part of movements for gender equality and become women´s human rights defenders. “Now more than ever,” they urged in a joint statement released ahead of International ... More >>
Life-Saving Action for Refugees in Medical Need Welcomed
Wednesday, 13 February 2019, 2:02 pm | UNHCR
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the action taken by the Parliament of Australia today to address critical medical needs of refugees and asylum-seekers under Australia's 'offshore processing'. More >>
Iran must protect women’s rights advocates – UN experts
Friday, 30 November 2018, 10:52 am | UNHCR
GENEVA (29 November 2018) – UN human rights experts* have called on Iran to guarantee the rights of human rights defenders and lawyers who have been jailed for publicly supporting protests against the mandatory wearing of the hijab in Iran. More >>
UN expert urges G20 to tackle global housing crisis
Friday, 30 November 2018, 10:50 am | UNHCR
GENEVA (29 November 2018) – A UN expert has urged leaders of the world’s major economies meeting for the annual G20 summit to tackle the unresolved global housing crisis that is depriving millions of a basic human right. More >>
30 Articles of the UDHR - Article 20: Freedom of Assembly
Friday, 30 November 2018, 10:49 am | UNHCR
From student occupations of universities in Paris in 1968 to the Arab Spring of 2011, mass demonstrations have been the way people demand social change. Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), combined with Article 19’s freedom ... More >>
UNHCR Appeals for Urgent Medical Intervention by Australia
Friday, 30 November 2018, 10:48 am | UNHCR
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, calls for immediate action by the Parliament of Australia to address the continuing medical crisis under “offshore processing” arrangements in Papua New Guinea and Nauru today. As the healthcare situation of refugees and ... More >>
Surveillance, big data and open data: UN Privacy Agenda
Saturday, 21 October 2017, 1:13 pm | UNHCR
NEW YORK (20 October 2017) –Governments must not release any personal data under open data schemes unless privacy safeguards are “bulletproof”, a UN expert on privacy has told the General Assembly in New York. More >>
Myanmar: UN rights expert urges restraint
Saturday, 12 August 2017, 12:31 pm | UNHCR
GENEVA (11 August 2017) – A United Nations human rights expert has expressed alarm over reports that an army battalion has flown into Rakhine State in western Myanmar to help local authorities boost security in the region. More >>
Venezuela sanctions would worsen plight of suffering people
Saturday, 12 August 2017, 12:30 pm | UNHCR
GENEVA (11 August 2017) – Sanctions are not the answer to the growing crisis in Venezuela and the international community should not impose them, United Nations Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy has said. More >>
Release of Canadian pastor in North Korea
Saturday, 12 August 2017, 12:29 pm | UNHCR
GENEVA (11 August 2017) – A United Nations human rights expert has welcomed the release of Canadian Pastor Hyeon Soo Lim, who had been detained in North Korea since February 2015. “I am delighted by Pastor Lim’s release from prison on humanitarian ... More >>
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Gaza
Saturday, 12 August 2017, 12:28 pm | UNHCR
We are deeply concerned about the steady deterioration in the humanitarian conditions and the protection of human rights in Gaza. More >>
Iran execution of a young man sentenced as a child
Friday, 11 August 2017, 8:28 pm | UNHCR
UN rights expert outraged at Iran execution of a young man sentenced as a child More >>
Venezuela: Concern at potential for repression
Saturday, 15 July 2017, 1:38 pm | UNHCR
GENEVA (14 July 2017) – Venezuelan authorities must ensure compliance with international human rights standards during an unofficial public vote on President Nicolás Maduro’s planned constitutional changes on Sunday 16 July, a United Nations expert has stressed. More >>
Correction to news reports appearing in Qatari media
Saturday, 1 July 2017, 3:41 pm | UNHCR
Correction to news reports appearing in Qatari media GENEVA (30 June 2017) - The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said Friday that it regrets the appearance of inaccurate accounts in Qatari media of a meeting held on Thursday between ... More >>
