- 22 November, 2024
Foreign Affairs, Geopolitics & National SecurityUNHCR
A million refugees have fled Ukraine – UNHCR head
ZURICH (Reuters) - A million people have fled Ukraine in a week after Russia invaded the country, the head of the United Nations refugee agency said on Twitter. "In just…
Journalists working with U.N. released after detention in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) -Two detained journalists in Afghanistan who had been working with the United Nations were released on Friday along with several Afghan workers, the U.N. refugee agency said. Earlier…
China says UN rights chief welcome in Xinjiang but not for investigation
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry said the United Nations human rights chief is welcome to visit Xinjiang but not for the purpose of an investigation, when asked about a…
Canada to resettle female Afghan judges, families living in limbo
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada will take in female Afghan judges and their families who have been living in limbo, primarily in Greece, since their evacuation from…
Impoverished Ethiopia seeks extra $2.5 billion to rebuild from war
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia wants to pass a supplementary budget worth 122 billion birr ($2.5 billion) to help finance programmes to rebuild areas destroyed by war and provide humanitarian…
U.N. urges Belarus, Poland to address refugees’ ‘dire conditions’
By Paul Carrel GENEVA (Reuters) - Belarus and Poland are pushing refugees back and forth across their border and leaving them with little if any food, clean water or shelter,…
Refugees lack COVID shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits – documents
By Francesco Guarascio and Panu Wongcha-um BRUSSELS/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Tens of millions of migrants may be denied COVID-19 vaccines from a global programme because some major manufacturers are worried about…
EU says ‘no question of any negotiation with Lukashenko regime’
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's executive said on Thursday there could be no negotiation with Belarus over the plight of migrants at its border with Poland and Baltic states,…
U.N.’s top rights body to hold urgent session on Sudan on Friday – statement
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold an emergency session on Sudan on Friday at the request of Britain and other countries following last week's military…
U.N. airlifts winter shelters for displaced Afghans
GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR started to airlift supplies to Kabul on Tuesday to help hundreds of thousands of displaced Afghans build shelters ahead of the winter.…
Poland’s push-back policy leaves migrants facing an uncertain future as winter looms
By Joanna Plucinska and Kacper Pempel Near SIEMIANOWKA, Poland (Reuters) - Somali migrant Abdi Fitah's bid to cross into Poland from Belarus ended with him barefoot and freezing after he…
U.N deal offers no guarantees of free movement for Rohingya on island – leaked agreement
By Poppy McPherson and Ruma Paul (Reuters) -A deal for the United Nations to start work on a remote Bangladeshi island where the government has sent thousands of Rohingya refugees…
