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UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi travelled overnight to Niger with more than 100 refugees, mostly women and children, as they were evacuated out of Libya, where they had been held in detention. A total of 121 refugees, many from Eritrea, arrived in Niamey, from where they will be resettled to other host countries under a new international program designed to urgently protect the most vulnerable refugees in Libya. News coverage from detention center, airport and flight to Niamey. UNHCR

Press Conference by Ninette Kelley, Director of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on the launch of UNHCR’s Global Trends Report.

Wars, other violence and persecution drove worldwide forced displacement to a new high in 2017 for the fifth year in a row, according to United Nations refugee agency’s (UNHCR) annual Global Trends report, released today. UNHCR

During his two-day visit to Libya, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi held a solemn moment of silence on Monday on the Libyan coast to remember the thousands of women, men and children who have died trying to cross the Mediterranean in search of safety and a better life. UNHCR

UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie said she saw “worst devastation” in all her years with the agency during a visit to the Iraqi city of Mosul to mark Eid al-Fitr. UNHCR

Eight months ago, Bangladeshi farmer Akhter Hossain opened up his house and heart to dozens of Rohingya families who arrived with young children after making perilous journeys fleeing Myanmar in search of safety. UNHCR

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

Aid teams are in a “race against time” to help up to 200,000 Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh threatened by landslides and flooding caused by the first heavy rains of the year, the United Nations said on Tuesday. UNTV CH

The first heavy rains of the monsoon season damaged many refugee settlements and put refugees at very high risk of landslides in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. UNHCR

The first-ever TEDx taking place in a refugee camp, was held Saturday (9 Jun) in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, The event, which was livestreamed to audiences around the world, offered a different lens into the reality of life as a refugee, away from the images of devastation and suffering, and towards stories of resilience, of contribution and creativity. UNHCR