Yemeni humanitarian organization wins 2021 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award
- A humanitarian organization from Yemen has been declared as the the winner of the 2021 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award.
- The organisation named “Jeel Albena Association for Humanitarian Development”, founded in 2017 by Ameen Jubran, has won the prestigious honour to support and provide a lifeline to tens of thousands of Yemenis people displaced by the country’s conflict.
- The UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award honours individuals, groups or organizations for going above and beyond the call of duty to protect refugees, other displaced and stateless people.
- There are also five regional winners.
- UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency headquarter – Geneva, Switzerland
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Source: UNHCR