U.N. Refugee Agency Marks 60th Anniversary, Chief Highlights New Challenges
For 60 years now, the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, has provided life-saving services to some of the world’s most vulnerable populations. To mark the anniversary, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres addressed an audience at the Brookings Institution to discuss the new challenges and necessary steps to address the changing nature of displacement today ...
A ‘Hidden Crisis’: Students in Conflict Zones
Of the 67 million primary school age children not enrolled in 2008, 28 million of those in conflict-affected countries. Increased support for education is critical to breaking the cycles of violence and stagnation in human development around the world – a theory that motivates the Darfur Dream Team’s work in eastern Chad ...
NBA Star Luol Deng Raises Awareness for Sudanese Refugees
In a new awareness-raising video, the U.N. refugee agency, known as UNHCR, features Luol Deng, former southern Sudanese refugee and seventh-season star of the Chicago Bulls ...
