US EditionUNHCR official warns that the 1951 refugee convention is increasingly under threat
UNHCR highlights a global humanitarian funding crisis affecting over 122 million displaced people amid rising asylum restrictions by US and European governments.
- On September 17, 2025, the UNHCR issued a stark warning from Geneva that the 1951 Refugee Convention is increasingly under threat worldwide.
- The warning followed governments, including the U.S. and European nations, increasingly restricting asylum and seeking deportation and transfer deals with African countries.
- UNHCR assistant high commissioner Ruvendrini Menikdiwela recently visited Chad, which hosts 1.5 million mostly Sudanese refugees fleeing civil war amid a severe funding crisis.
- Menikdiwela reported refugees wandering with bullet and shrapnel wounds and highlighted unprecedented sexual violence, citing an 80-year-old woman raped multiple times.
- She urged leaders to increase support and donations to prevent further northward refugee movements, emphasizing the Convention and Protocol have saved millions of lives.
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UNHCR says that US and European governments increasingly undermine the global refugee convention
The U.N. refugee agency says that governments around the world, especially that of the United States and countries in Europe, are increasingly undermining the global convention on refugees and asylum seekers — even threatening its very existence.
UNHCR says that US and European governments increasingly undermine the global refugee convention - The Morning Sun
The U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday that governments around the world, especially that of the United States and countries in Europe, are increasingly undermining the global convention on refugees and asylum seekers — even threatening its very existence. The stark warning by the UNHCR came on the 75th anniversary of the U.N. Refugee Convention, a 1951 document that defines who refugees are and outlines the responsibilities of countries hosting…
The UN refugee agency said Wednesday that governments around the world, especially those in the United States and European countries, are increasingly undermining the global convention on refugees and asylum seekers, and even threatening their very existence.
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