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How we can help
As UNHCR’s official UK charity, we support media with research, visual assets and interviews about UNHCR’s international humanitarian work. This includes emergency response work during humanitarian crises as well as campaigns to help refugees around the world access education, healthcare and livelihoods.
Please contact Mark Macdonald at mmacdonald@unrefugees.org.uk for assistance, including research, photography, B-Roll or more information about our campaigns.
Policy issues
If you are seeking UNHCR comment on any policy issues, including asylum-seeking or resettlement, or comment relating to UK Government policy, please contact Matthew Saltmarsh at saltmars@unhcr.org
For the latest global UNHCR media releases, please visit below.
UK for UNHCR media team:
Mark Macdonald
Director of Communications
mmacdonald@unrefugees.org.uk
Genna AlTai
Senior Digital Communications Officer (social media)
galtai@unrefugees.org.uk
UNHCR Global News Releases
UNHCR | The UN Refugee Agency
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees visits Sudan as new refugee arrivals cross 43,000 November 27, 2020The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, is visiting Khartoum as the country receives a growing number of refugees from Ethiopia. Since the start of fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray...
- As refugee numbers surge, Ethiopians seek word of loved ones November 26, 2020Over 40,000 Ethiopians have fled the Tigray crisis into eastern Sudan, with no sign of a let-up in new arrivals. Many anxiously hope to be reunited with their families.
- Six 'Films of Hope' for uncertain times November 25, 2020Sex and the City co-stars Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon chat about their go-to films for inspiration and what the world needs to fight the coronavirus.
- Gender-based violence on the rise during lockdowns November 25, 2020Data shows that displaced women and girls worldwide are experiencing increased gender-based violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- UNHCR warns second wave of COVID pandemic driving further violence against refugee women and girls November 25, 2020As the coronavirus pandemic prolongs, a lethal mix of confinement, deepening poverty and economic duress is unleashing a renewed wave of violence against refugee, displaced and stateless women and girls,...