Refugees

United States Contributes $55 Million to UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees

The $55 million contribution will provide critical health, education, and humanitarian services to five million Palestinian refugees in the region

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Secretary Clinton on Agreement on Camp Ashraf, Iraq

Today, the United Nations and the Government of Iraq signed an important agreement on the temporary relocation and eventual resettlement of the more than 3,000 residents of Camp Ashraf in Iraq. We commend the Government of Iraq for its work with United Nations Special Representative Ambassador Martin Kobler, and welcome this important step toward a humane resolution to the ongoing situation at Ashraf. The UN effort has our full support.

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U.S. Statement on The Occasion of the 100th Council of the International Organization for Migration

We gather this week to celebrate an important milestone in the history of this organization and to look ahead to the future.

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UNHCR Ministerial: U.S. Announces Pledges to Protect Refugees and Stateless Persons

Our pledges address five themes ranging from asylum and detention, to vulnerable populations, to refugee resettlement and statelessness.

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Secretary Clinton’s Statement at the UNHCR Ministerial on the 60th Anniversary of the Refugee Convention

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Protecting and assisting refugees is among my government’s highest humanitarian priorities, and the pledges we are making today will be an important step in helping the 12 million people who wake up every morning stateless, belonging nowhere at all, and the more than 40 million who are displaced.

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Secretary of State Clinton to Address UNHCR Ministerial December 7

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will address the a Ministerial Meeting of all UN member states in Geneva on December 7th.

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State Department on Conditions in Horn of Africa

MARK TONER: While we are encouraged by the international community’s response efforts and the impact they are having on saving lives, the crisis is far from over, and the needs are still great. Any decline in the level of international assistance, increase in conflict, and/or new disruptions to humanitarian access or trade could allow famine conditions to reappear in Somalia.

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State’s Otero on Statelessness and Gender Discrimination

We know that as many as 12 million people around the world are not recognized as citizens by any state. They live in every region of the world, at the margins of the formal economy and political system, largely hidden without government recognition.

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UNHCR Executive Committee – International Protection

The United States’ commitment to the protection of refugees, asylum seekers, displaced populations, stateless persons, and other persons of concern to UNHCR remains strong. As we mark the 60th anniversary of UNHCR’s creation, the U.S. Government is proud of our long history of support to UNHCR as it has pursued its mandate to protect some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

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Ambassador Robinson Addresses the UNHCR Executive Committee

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The United States remains a committed partner with UNHCR and the beneficiaries it serves. We are providing more than $680 million dollars this year to the organization to assist its work across all four pillars defining its populations of concern – refugee assistance, refugee returns and reintegration, the internally displaced, and stateless persons.

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