resettlement

• Turkey
• Greece
• Germany

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has called on countries around the world to defend the principles of the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Various experts have expressed concern over the convention being ignored and habitually breached.

• Lebanon
• Germany

Germany's capital Berlin has announced it wants to welcome 500 vulnerable people over the next five years, mainly Syrians and Iraqis. The people in question have sought refuge in Lebanon.

• European Union

The European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson has reported that she is working to secure €300 million for the resettlement of 30,000 refugees until the end of 2022.

• Switzerland

The Swiss government has announced it will take in up to 1,600 refugees till the end of 2023. Most beneficiaries will be persons fleeing conflict and persecution in five different countries.

• Bosnia & Herzegovina

Bosnian authorities have asked local police to move about 250 migrants who were staying in an abandoned building near the city of Bihac and resettle them in the official Lipa camp nearby.

• Lebanon
• Syria
• Iraq

French civil society groups have formalized an agreement with the French government to renew the "Humanitarian Corridors" protocol. The deal benefits vulnerable Iraqi and Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

• Greece
• Germany

After the final relocation flight with refugees from Greek camps landed in Germany this week, German aid organizations criticized the end to resettlement from Lesbos and demanded an extension. Since April 2020, Germany has taken in a total of 2,662 people from the Greek Aegean Islands.

• Germany

The UN refugee agency UNHCR has proposed key measures to improve protection for refugees around the world. As a major player in European politics, Germany should step up its efforts, UNHCR says.

• Greece
• France
• United Kingdom

The British government says its priority is providing sanctuary to those in dangerous conflict zones post-Brexit. Effectively, this means that unaccompanied children without relatives in the UK no longer have a safe passage to Britain, say campaigners.

• Switzerland

The UN refugee agency UNHCR said that refugee resettlement was at a "record low" in 2020. The agency called on more countries to offer resettlement places in the future in order to save lives.

• Germany

The German government has announced that it will accept several thousand refugees next year who were originally due to arrive in Germany in 2020 but were hindered due to restrictions relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• France
• Central African Republic
• Sudan

A total of 120 refugees from Sudan and the Central African Republic were resettled to France through the International Organization for Migration (IOM), according to a statement published by the UN agency on December 1. The refugees left N'Djamena (Chad) with a chartered flight on November 25.