Contents tagged with Internally Displaced Persons

  • Germany allocates €9 million to Ukraine for migrant housing

    Ukraine is to receive €9 million from Germany in order to create social housing for internally displaced persons, and to develop infrastructure in the relevant cities, as announced on the website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Social Policy.

    The relevant financial and project-related agreements were signed on Thursday by Andriy Reva, Minister of Social Policy, Marion Knesch, head of the municipal and infrastructural division of the German KfW Development Bank, and Andriy Laktionov, executive …

  • UN names Ukraine ninth in the world by the number of internally displaced persons

    Neal Walker, United Nations Resident Coordinator and Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative in Ukraine, has said that Ukraine ranks ninth in the world by number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

    "1.6 million Internally Displaced Persons are registered in Ukraine. Ukraine is the ninth largest country in the world in terms of the number of Internally Displaced Persons," he said during a discussion titled The Key to a Peace Agenda is in the Hands of Ukraine’s Internally …