Filippo Grandi

UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi pleads for more aid for Venezuelan refugees, calls it 'one of most under-funded humanitarian appeals in world'

Pacaraima residents closed shops on Saturday and marched through the streets to shouts of 'Out with the Venezuelans', 'Pacaraima is ours'

UNHCR commissioner Filippo Grandi, IMO director Antonio Vitorino demand freedom for migrants, refugees in Libyan centres

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi and International Organization for Migration director Antonio Vitorino called for refugees and migrants held in Libyan centres to be freed and for countries to take them in.

UN refugee agency head asks Asia-Pacific leaders to show 'solidarity' with Rohingya, calls for solutions to Rakhine unrest

The UNHCR chief said the "real solution" to the Rohingya issue is in Myanmar, calling for regional support to fight the root causes of Rakhine displacement.

Rohingya crisis: Myanmar cancels UN officials' planned visit to Rakhine state

A planned visit by United Nations officials to Myanmar's Rakhine state, which has seen a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims, has been cancelled by the country's authorities

Rohingyas in Bangladesh are in desperate need of help, says UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi

Rohingya refugees who have fled violence in Myanmar for shelter in neighbouring Bangladesh are in desperate need of help, UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi has said

UN says US aid vital for solving global refugee crisis, opposes proposed funding cut

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi met US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson today and warned that American funding is "vital" to his mission to help victims of the world's wars.

South Sudan food crisis: UN says aid dwindling in world's fastest-growing refugee crisis

Food aid soon will run out for nearly a million South Sudanese sheltering in Uganda in what has become the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis, the United Nations refugee chief said