The Global Shelter Cluster (GSC) is a platform of shelter and settlement partners. Its mission is to support crisis-affected people to live in safe, dignified and appropriate shelter and settlements. The GSC and country Shelter Clusters work collectively with national response actors to support people affected by natural disasters and …
The Global Shelter Cluster (GSC) is a platform of shelter and settlement partners. Its mission is to support crisis-affected people to live in safe, dignified and appropriate shelter and settlements. The GSC and country Shelter Clusters work collectively with national response actors to support people affected by natural disasters and …
UNHCR is mandated to provide protection, assistance and solutions for refugees, asylum-seekers, returnees, stateless persons, internally displaced people and others of concern to the Office, of whom there were 86.5 million at the end of 2019. With COVID-19 sweeping the globe, more than 20 million people worldwide are confirmed to …
Further the emergence of COVID-19 and the perceived socioeconomic hardship imposed by the measures put in place to curtail the spread of the virus, the United High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) embarked on a study to understand the socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 among PoCs. The study was carried in conjunction …
As a complement to agency-wide efforts across all its IDP operations, UNHCR’s engagement in internal displacement will be further concretized, supported and driven forward on a focused and demonstrative basis in nine target operations, which span the internal displacement spectrum from emergency preparedness, to response, and to solutions. The target …
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, through the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) donated $1.8 million to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to support the agency’s efforts in building permanent one-room shelters for the displaced families of Orakzai Agency. Under the agreement, UNHCR will construct 1000 permanent one-room …
UNHCR is working for provision of home facility to more than 45,000 vulnerable families affected by the devastating floods in the country. The UN agency has nearly completed construction on around 30,000 transitional shelters for families who plan to repair or rebuild their homes. Permanent shelters are being built to …
The United Nations said on Tuesday it was struggling to keep up with an exodus of hungry Somali refugees and many emaciated children were dying of malnutrition along the way or after arriving in neighboring countries. More than 11 million people in the Horn of Africa now need assistance to …
The world must invent new ways to protect people driven from their homes by climate change without copying safeguards for those uprooted by wars or persecution, the head of the U.N. refugee agency said on Monday. "There is a protection gap in the international system that needs to be addressed," …
The country director of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said that floods and torrential rains had affected over 20 million people and displaced 16 million Pakistanis. Addressing a press conference at the UNHCR office here on Tuesday, Mengesha Kebede said the flood-affected area was equal to the size …
QUETTA, Aug 31: The country director of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said that floods and torrential rains had affected over 20 million people and displaced 16 million Pakistanis. Addressing a press conference at the UNHCR office here on Tuesday, Mengesha Kebede said the flood-affected area was equal …
Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Parvez Ashraf has said that 4.5 billion dollars are being invested in power generation sector to add 4000 megawatt electricity to the system and overcome power crisis by the end of the current calendar year. He said this while speaking to employees of …
The Somali region is located in the eastern part of Ethiopia. Its capital, Jijiga, is located 635 km from the capital Addis Ababa. Currently there are three refugee camps in this region, namely Kebribeyah, Awberie and Sheder, which together host about 28,500 individuals. To allow refugees to complement the basic …
Refugee concern: A recent report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Pakistan government says that about 82 per cent of registered Afghan refugees in Pakistan have no intention to return to their homeland in the near future. Security threats in Afghanistan are a major reason for …
