By Bridgett Milton The United Nations High Commission on Refugees has stressed the need for urgent action against childhood statelessness. UNHCR says stateless children across the world share similar feelings of discrimination, frustration and despair. Speaking Tuesday in Monrovia at press con...

The United Nations High Commission on Refugees has stressed the need for urgent action against childhood statelessness. UNHCR says stateless children across the world share similar feelings of discrimination, frustration and despair. Speaking Tuesday in Monrovia at press conference, UNHCR Deputy ...

Monrovia - On August 1, 2011, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf signed into law the National Identification Registry Act, which repealed PRC Decree # 65 establishing the National Identification card system. In May 2012, President Sirleaf established the NIR Board of Registrars, which includes the head...

Acting Minister B. Elias Shoniyin and Ms. Ndeye Ndour, the new Resident Representative of the UNHCR briefly exchanged views on her new assignment Photo Credit: Public Affairs The Acting Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, B. Elias Shoniyin, on Tuesday, October 13, received in audience, ...

Eight year old Justin Loga Zrango had one dream back in 2002: to become a doctor. He would wake up early; go to school and study hard to make his dream come true. Justin, sisters and a brother, mother and father lived in their farm in the Glanhoue village, region of Danane, in Cote d’Ivoire; a m...

MONROVIA, Aug 31, (UNHCR) – Paul Gbedji is a civil engineer. But the hardest thing he has ever had to build was a new life. Staring out through the pouring rain across the construction site in Liberia where he has been working for eight years, he says with a smile: "I am doing a nice job Paul ...

They vibrantly celebrated World Refugee Day with songs and dances BAHN REFUGEE CAMP, SACLEPEA, LIBERIA, 20 June 2015 (UNHCR) – The whistle marked the beginning of the men’s football match, which followed the women’s game. Refugees from the camps of Bahn and PTP competed against each other for ...