UN Refugee Agency

Protecting climate change refugees

Governments around the world are engaged in a series of talks that could fundamentally alter how the movement of people across borders is managed. One dialogue is focused on the protection of refugees; the other on migration.These discussions, which are being led by the United Nations (UN), will not result in legally binding agreements. But the talks themselves are a rare chance to forge consensus on contemporary migration challenges.

29 May 2018
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Pessimism over attempt to repatriate Rohingya refugees

Amidst the Papal visit to Myanmar, one issue still looms – the humanitarian crisis unfolding at the Rakhine State in Myanmar near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.Rohingya refugees who return to Myanmar following a Bangladesh-Myanmar repatriation agreement will initially have to live in temporary shelters or camps, Dhaka said Saturday."Primarily they will be kept at temporary shelters or arrangements for a limited time," Bangladesh Foreign Minister A.H.

25 November 2017
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The urgency of refugee education

GENEVA – The world’s refugee crisis is most often measured in numbers. But for young refugees missing out on an education, the crisis can also be tracked by an irreversible metric: the passage of time.

3 October 2017
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