UNHCR’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Locations
Organizations
- UNHCR
Since the start of the pandemic, UNHCR has scaled up their work to keep refugees and internally displaced people safe across the globe. The organisation responded with life-saving support such as boosting water and sanitation facilities, increasing access to public health and hygiene as well as airlifting emergency supplies and establishing isolation units. UNHCR works hard to ensure that the rights and protection of forcibly displaced people are respected, including the right to seek asylum despite border closures.
“If ever we needed reminding that we live in an interconnected world, the novel coronavirus has brought that home.”
Filippo Grandi
UN High Commissioner for Refugees