Antonio Guterres Quotations

When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.

Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage - the world's millions of refugees and displaced.

The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Republic and elsewhere. Non-traditional donors need to step up alongside traditional donors. As many people are forcibly displaced today as the entire populations of medium-to-large countries such as Colombia or Spain, South Africa or South Korea,

...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking...Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history,

While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to survive, but to persevere and rebuild their shattered lives.

We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely

What we are witnessing on the ground is a very serious degeneration of the situation, ... It is extremely nasty, with ugly events.

We are extremely concerned about those who have been left with no shelter, no heat and none of the basic essentials required for daily subsistence.

We are really very concerned. The whole region is very unstable.

We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table, ... When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families.

The government of Sudan has a responsibility to ensure security for all of its citizens,

There is no justification for such violence and loss of life. This is a terrible tragedy, and our condolences go to all the families of those who died and to the injured.

There is no justification for such violence and loss of life.

Once again, the humanitarian community is mourning a friend and colleague who died trying to help others in a place that has already seen far too much sadness and violence.

In these next 12 months what we'd like to see is the steady start of the return to the south, a peace agreement to be achieved in Darfur and the east, progressive improvement of security in Darfur and the start of the sustained return of refugees there,

Chad not only is not going to send them back but never intended to.

certainly without any personal responsibility for the tragic events that have left the country in mourning.