UNHCR

Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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09 October 2023
UN envoy highlights Myanmar junta’s ‘deadly threesome’
Myanmar refugees pass the huts housing refugees at the Mae La refugee camp on the Thai border with Myanmar, in Tak province, north-western Thailand. Photo: EPA
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06 December 2019
Prawit asks UNHCR to speed up processing
Thailand has urged the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to speed up...
(File) A refugee family from Myanmar's ethnic Chin tribe spend their afternoon in a small apartment that houses more then twenty asylum-seekers in down town Kuala Lumpur. Photo: AFP
News
18 March 2019
Refugee rights organisations welcome UNHCR Chin...
Refugee rights organisations have hailed UNHCR’s decision to halt the cessation process...
A family of Myanmar's ethnic Chin refugees seen inside their flat in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo: EPA
News
15 March 2019
Chin refugees may require continued international...
In response to the worsening security situation in southern Chin State in Myanmar, UNHCR...
06 October 2018
UN blasts India’s deportations
The UN voiced alarm Friday over India's deportation of seven Rohingya men to Myanmar...
Rohingya Muslim children and elders gather at the Thet Kel Pyin camp in Rakhine state. Photo: Phyo Hein Kyaw/AFP
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13 September 2018
UN teams given first access to Myanmar’s Rakhine
The UN began work Wednesday inside Myanmar's violence-torn northern Rakhine state, the...

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