Etiket: Refugees
For lack of evidence from Israel, the UN closed or suspended several cases targeting employees of its agency for Palestinian refugees
Now only 14 employees are under investigation, the office of the UN secretary-general’s spokesperson announced Friday. Published on 04/26/2024 22:39 Update on 04/26/2024 22:40 Reading time: 1 min A man…
For lack of evidence from Israel, the UN closed or suspended several cases targeting employees of its agency for Palestinian refugees
Now only 14 employees are under investigation, the office of the UN secretary-general’s spokesperson announced Friday. Published on 04/26/2024 22:39 Update on 04/26/2024 22:40 Reading time: 1 min A man…
London | Theater company gives voice to refugees
(London) In east London, the Phosphoros Theater brings young refugees and asylum seekers on stage to reclaim their history, in an increasingly hostile political context in the United Kingdom. Posted…
UN creates fund to help refugees face global warming
In 2022, more than 70% of refugees and asylum seekers came from countries highly exposed to climate change. Published on 04/24/2024 22:36 Update on 04/25/2024 08:42 Reading time: 1 min…
UN creates fund to help refugees face climate shocks
In 2022, more than 70% of refugees and asylum seekers came from countries highly exposed to climate change. Published on 04/24/2024 22:36 Update on 04/24/2024 22:40 Reading time: 1 min…
Head of UN agency for Palestinian refugees calls for investigation into Israel’s attacks on the United Nations
Philippe Lazzarini spoke to the press on Tuesday at UN headquarters in New York, following the report published Monday highlighting the lack of political “neutrality” of the UN humanitarian agency…
“We accept the recommendations of this report”, assures the spokesperson for the agency for Palestinian refugees
Tamara Alrifai, spokesperson for UNRWA, was invited to Franceinfo on Tuesday. Published on 04/23/2024 6:26 p.m. Reading time: 1 min UNRWA employees protest against job cuts outside the UN agency’s…
Rwanda prepares to welcome refugees expelled by the United Kingdom
Published on 04/23/2024 8:01 p.m. Video length: 1 min Migrants: Rwanda prepares to welcome refugees expelled by the United Kingdom Migrants: Rwanda prepares to welcome refugees expelled by the United…
UN agency for Palestinian refugees has ‘neutrality problems’ but remains ‘irreplaceable’, says independent report
This mission to assess the “neutrality” of UNRWA, handed over to the head of the United Nations on Monday, is chaired by former French Minister of Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna.…
UN agency for Palestinian refugees has ‘neutrality problems’ but remains ‘irreplaceable’, says independent report
This mission to assess the “neutrality” of UNRWA, handed over to the head of the United Nations on Monday, is chaired by former French Minister of Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna.…
one year after the start of the war in Sudan, civilians try to collect testimonies from refugees
While Sudan is going through one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world according to the United Nations, civil society is mobilizing to investigate this conflict which has left…
after Egypt and Chad, refugees are heading towards Italy, according to the UNHCR
For just over a year, civil war has raged in Sudan, causing “one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world”, according to the United Nations. A conference, co-chaired by…
Israel once again accuses the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees of being infiltrated by Hamas
The Jewish state continues to point the finger at UNRWA as complicit in the Palestinian Islamist movement. What the United Nations agency denies. Published on 04/11/2024 12:46 Reading time: 1…
A glimmer of hope for sponsored refugees
Good news regarding the reception of refugees is rather rare these days. Here is one that deserves to be saluted: after the media coverage of the Kafkaesque story of sponsorship…
“There are seven of us in a 4 1/2”: refugees are forced to live crowded in Montreal housing
Political refugees who thought they would find better living conditions in Quebec find themselves, in the middle of a housing crisis, living crammed into unsanitary apartments for which they pay…
Aid for Palestinian refugees | Washington implored Ottawa not to abandon UNRWA, says Hussen
(Ottawa) The United States ambassador to the United Nations implored Canada last month to continue funding the UN agency that helps the Palestinians, says International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen. Posted…
UNRWA, “source of hope” for Palestinian refugees, says UN
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres defended the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Jordan on Monday, describing it as a “source of hope and dignity”. During a visit to…
69 Rohingya refugees rescued at sea after shipwreck
In recent months, several hundred members of this Muslim minority persecuted in Burma have fled their camps in Bangladesh to try to reach Indonesia. Published on 03/21/2024 08:08 Reading time:…
The UN reminds States of their duties towards Haitian refugees
Haitians must benefit from refugee protection and not be forcibly returned to their country, where gangs reign in terror, the United Nations recalled on Wednesday. Faced with the chaotic situation…
Canada to accept more refugees from Gaza
Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced Monday that Canada will allow more people stuck in the Gaza Strip and who have extended family members in Canada to apply for temporary…