News headlines for “Racism”, page 48
Navigating complex peace and security challenges together: Grandi
- UN News

Conflict, climate change and COVID-19, have created a perfect storm of challenges facing refugees, displaced people and their hosts, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, told the Security Council on Tuesday.
Clashes displace thousands in Darfur, where 6.2 million will need assistance next year
- UN News

With escalating violence displacing thousands of people since November, the humanitarian situation in Sudan’s Darfur is getting worse and around 6.2 million people will need humanitarian assistance next year, UN agencies reported on Tuesday.
Avoid starvation: ‘Immediate priority’ for 3.5 million Afghans
- UN News

Amidst “truly unprecedented levels” of hunger in Afghanistan, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday that as winter arrives, avoiding widespread starvation “is an immediate priority”.
UNHCR chief calls for mechanism to deal with ‘unprecedented’ displacement in Mexico and Central America
- UN News

Lack of opportunities, gangs, organized crime, the ravages of the pandemic and climate change, have triggered the displacement of nearly one million people in Mexico and Central America in recent years.
Global displacement rising despite lockdowns that kept billions grounded
- UN News

There was a dramatic increase in internal displacement due to disasters, conflict and violence in 2020, but global mobility overall, ground to a halt due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.
IOM scales up aid at EU-Belarus border, as migrant hypothermia deaths tick up
- UN News

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and partners, are scaling up aid along the border between the European Union and Belarus, amid worsening winter weather, which is leading to rising deaths due to hypothermia among asylum seekers stranded there.
UN Refugee Agency concerned about indigenous Venezuelans in Guyana
- UN News

One meal a day, no shelter, and no drinking water are only some of the difficult living conditions that indigenous Warao families from Venezuela are facing in remote locations across Guyana, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has warned.
Violence against refugee women surged in 2020, but grassroots solutions can help tackle scourge
- UN News

One in five refugee or internally displaced women have faced sexual violence, and the situation continues to worsen globally, the UN refugee agency, (UNHCR), said on Thursday.
Drowning of 27 migrants in English Channel is worst disaster on record: IOM
- UN News

Urgent action is needed to avoid a repeat of tragedies like this week’s drowning of at least 27 people in the English Channel, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Thursday.
Poverty and violence push 378,000 Central Americans north each year
- UN News

For the past five years, poverty, food insecurity, climate shocks and violence have pushed, on average, some 378,000 Central Americans a year into the United States, according to a new report launched on Tuesday by the UN food relief agency.

