The parade of nations at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics opening ceremony was led by members of the refugee team, who received a message of support from Bayern Munich footballer and UN ambassador Alphonso Davies.
Kimia Alizadeh is labeled many things: heroine, enemy of the state, refugee and Olympic bronze medalist in taekwondo. She thinks she failed in Tokyo after missing the medals podium — but the opposite is the case.
Cyrille Tchatchet II is about to make history at the Tokyo Olympics: The weightlifter was selected for the International Olympic Committee's refugee team, making him the first UK-based refugee Olympian. But he never forgets the difficult journey he suffered to get there.
With the Olympic Games just two months away, refugee athletes are putting everything they have into reaching the goal of competing on the team in Tokyo.
UNHCR has launched a social media campaign with a video to support the Refugee Olympic and Paralympic teams.
The UN agency for migration IOM will promote a project to train 2,000 youths in Sierra Leone funded by the Japanese government to provide market-driven training and fight unemployment and migration.
For the first time, Germany has become the second largest donor to the UN refugee agency UNHCR. With a total of 477 million US dollars in aid in 2017, it contributed more than the European Union who came in third place.