InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/04/16
During a visit to Italy by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi, Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese expressed a willingness to step up shared initiatives for refugee reception and humanitarian corridors.
Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese met Wednesday, April 14 with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi for an in-depth discussion on issues of shared interest, especially in light of the effects of migration flows generated by a severe economic and social crisis linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The minister outlined the results achieved through consolidated collaboration with UNHCR and showed a willingness to step up these shared initiatives for refugee reception, referring in particular to the organizing of transfers via humanitarian corridors.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/03/16
After ten years of conflict, half of the Syrian population has been forced to flee home, the UN refugee agency UNHCR has highlighted. 70% are living in poverty.
In a statement issued to mark the tenth anniversary of the start of the conflict in Syria, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said that the crisis has produced more than 5.5 million refugees in the region while hundreds of thousands more are scattered across 130 countries.
70% of refugees are living in a condition of total poverty, without access to food, water and basic services. Half of Syrians were forced to flee their homes, the UN agency said on March 13.