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, ...

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- On August 1, 2011, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf signed into law the National Identification Registry Act, which repealed PRC Decree # 65 establishing the National Identification card system.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...

By Mafanta Kromah, mafanta.kromah@gmail.com0880637357 The UNHCR continues to intensify efforts to end and prevent statelessness. Statelessness, in this context, is a situation in which a person is without nationality or citizenship; something UNHCR describes as human rights violation. Addressin...

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 ...

Following the fifth technical meeting of the Tri-partite Commission on the Voluntary Repatriation of Ivorian refugees held on 9th and 10th December 2015 in Monrovia, the Governments of Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire and the UNHCR have agreed to resume the voluntary repatriation process. The Acting Minist...

Prollo, Côte d'Ivoire — The UN Refugee Agency has resumed the voluntary repatriation of tens of thousands of Ivorian refugees from Liberia, after a pause of more than a year because land borders were closed to prevent the spread of a deadly Ebola outbreak. Some 11,000 of the 38,000 Ivorian refuge...