Filippo Grandi
- Damilola Banjo
- • June 27, 2022
Britain’s new five-year asylum partnership arrangement with Rwanda is showing the rest of Europe how countries can possibly lock refugees out of their borders. And Filippo Grandi, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, is worried about this precedent….
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Migration, Refugees
- Dr. Catherine Mullaly
- • March 1, 2022
Ukraine’s population data are rapidly changing as the war rages in its country since Russia began its aerial, ground and sea assaults late last week. Within 24 hours of issuing its first report, the UN Refugee Agency documented that…
- Categories: Health and Population, Humanitarian Aid, Peace and Security
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • September 24, 2021
The fourth day of the United Nations General Assembly debate soldiered on, with pointed speeches by, among others, the Caribbean island nation of Barbados, whose prime minister, Mia Amor Mottley, asked the General Assembly Hall, “How many crises and…
- Categories: Climate Change, General Assembly, Health and Population, UNGA76, US-UN Relations
- Dali ten Hove
- • August 1, 2021
As the world inches closer to catastrophic global heating and vulnerable communities from Mali to Myanmar are already suffering the consequences, the United Nations Refugee Agency has been grappling with the growing role of climate change as a driver…
- Categories: Human Rights, Refugees, US Foreign Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • July 10, 2018
The United States is the biggest donor to the UN Refugee Agency, and the Trump administration wants the world to know it. A new framework, or agreement, signed by the State Department and the refugee agency (UNHCR) requires it…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Humanitarian Aid, Refugees, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Adriana Erthal Abdenur and Maiara Folly
- • June 5, 2018
RIO DE JANEIRO — Only weeks from the start of the 2018 World Cup, soccer teams of refugees from Mali, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria, Angola, Burkina Faso and Gambia who had migrated to Brazil became the…
- Categories: Migration, Refugees, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Vera Dimoplon  and Patricia Mace
- • August 11, 2017
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is facing the largest refugee crisis since its inception. The agency, which was created to respond to the overwhelming number of refugees after World War II, has seen its mandate expand while…
- Categories: Refugees, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 5, 2017
Thirty-two days in office as United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres spoke extensively to the media for the first time at UN headquarters, on Feb. 1. Indicative of the chaos gripping many parts of the world as a result of…
- Joanne Myers
- • September 14, 2016
As the special envoy to the United Nations secretary-general on international migration since 2006, Peter Sutherland, an Irishman, has minced few words on the topic of people leaving their homes in search of better lives. In his role at…
- Categories: General Assembly, Human Rights, Migration, Refugees, UN Special Envoys
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 11, 2015
Filippo Grandi of Italy has been selected by Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, to become the 11th UN High Commissioner for Refugees, a post based in Geneva. Grandi will be officially voted into office by the UN General…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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