Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.Bangladesh Babar Baloch, for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said that UNHCR and its partners were providing urgent aid and seeking shelter for Rohingya refugees who had arrived from Myanmar in the past 48 hours. According to the Bangladesh...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, the World Health Organization and the International Labour Organization.Refugees from Cameroon arriving in Nigeria Babar Baloch, for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said that UNHCR, together with the local authorities in south-eastern Nigeria, was assisting recently arrived Cameroonians seeking refuge and safety. Thousands had fled to Nigeria following renewed...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.Bangladesh Joel Millman, for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), said that a total of 817,000 Rohingya refugees were now living in the southernmost district of Bangladesh. That figure included...

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization.Bangladesh Joel Millman, for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), said that according to the latest figures, some 603,000 refugees had arrived in Cox’s Bazar...

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization.Bangladesh Joel Millman, for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), said that on 19 October 2017, nearly 7,000 Rohingya refugees who had been stranded in dire conditions in no-man’s land at Anjuman Para on the Bangladeshi side of the border had been moved by the Bangladeshi...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme and the World Meteorological Organization.Bangladesh Joel Millman, for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), said that the Director-General of IOM was currently in Bangladesh, where he had visited camps and held...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for International Migration and Secretary-General of the Intergovernmental Conference on International Migration, and the spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, the World Food Programme, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the World Health Organization, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Development Programme.Bangladesh Adrian Edwards, for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said that UNHCR was working with the Bangladesh authorities on a transit centre to prepare for a potential refugee influx in the coming days, following the...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.Visit by the Secretary-General to hurricane-affected areas Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Geneva, recalled...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization and the International Labour Organization.Bangladesh Joel Millman, for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), said that in collaboration with the British Government, IOM had organized a major airlift of relief items to help some of the estimated 507,...