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India on Wednesday condemned Pakistan at the 34th Meeting of the 60th UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session in Geneva, accusing Islamabad of hypocrisy in lecturing other nations on human rights. Indian diplomat Mohammed Hussain urged…
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The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has sounded the alarm over a deepening humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where more than 1.6 million Afghans have returned from Iran and Pakistan so far this year — many under coercive or…
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The UN refugee agency faces one of the most difficult moments in its more than 70-year history as record displacements coincide with funding shortfalls and a “short-sighted” focus on border controls, its chief said on Monday. Conflicts…
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Angelina Jolie and the United Nations’ refugee agency are parting ways after more than two decades. In a joint statement issued Friday, the US actor and the agency announced she was “moving on” from her role as the agency’s special envoy…
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Europe must enact a stable and holistic migration pact to deal with the growing number of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine, Vice President for Promoting the European Way of Life in the European Commission Margaritis Schinas said.…
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Russia’s war in Ukraine has pushed the number of forcibly displaced people around the world above 100 million for the first time ever, the United Nations said Monday. “The number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights…
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More than five million Ukrainians have now fled their country following the Russian invasion, the United Nations said Wednesday, in Europe's fastest-growing refugee crisis since World War II. UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said 5,034,439…
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The UN refugee agency said Wednesday more than 4 million refugees have now fled Ukraine since Russia launched its war in the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. The new figure was posted on an UNHCR website. More than 2.3…
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Amid Russia’s ongoing offensive in Ukraine, the two countries agreed to establish 10 humanitarian corridors in the eastern European nation, for March 14, for the evacuation of citizens stranded in the regions of Kyiv Oblast and Luhansk…
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Leonardo DiCaprio has donated to humanitarian organizations supporting Ukraine, though an earlier widely circulated report was inaccurate. In recent days, reports have circulated online that DiCaprio donated $10 million to an organization…
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