Global Refugee Youth Consultations, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), GENEVA
June 14, 2016
Wars, conflict and persecution have forced more people than at any other time since World War II to flee their homes and seek refuge and safety elsewhere. Many of them are young people – and I agree, Mr. High Commissioner, we, the humanitarian community, haven’t done enough for them...
Giving Women and Girls Equal Access to ICTs, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Geneva
May 31, 2016
Technology is critical to social and economic development, and that’s exactly why it is also critical that women and girls have equal access to ICTs and to opportunities to develop 21st-century skills...
Credit: UNOCHA
2016 Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID 2016), Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Geneva
May 13, 2016
You heard the numbers from Alexandra, and they are shocking. We can see the magnitude of the situation and how multidimensional the challenge of internal displacement really is. Responding to this challenge is an inherent responsibility of national governments...