UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

As the third disrupted school year for children and youth from Ukraine draws to a close, more than 600,000 remain out of school across the European Union, from an estimated 1.4 million school-aged ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and its humanitarian partners are stepping up support to assist some 8,000 Rohingya refugees ...

Welcome to the World Refugee Day 2024 live blog, highlighting stories and events from around the globe celebrating the strength and courage of people forced to flee their homes.

What a privilege and a great pleasure to be here today! I have been looking forward so much to this event. I think you all know — and can imagine — that I speak in many places. But I specially value ...

Devastating extreme weather events and natural disasters are shattering many refugee and other displaced communities worldwide, worsening their plight and in some cases forcing them to move onwards ...

Hadji Al Nour Sar has a simple wish: to change her clothes. The 30-year-old mother of six has worn the same tattered dress for over a year since she and her children escaped the fresh carnage in Sudan ...

Nyapuot Riak Dup recalls the fateful day last April when a piece of shrapnel ripped through her house in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman and smashed a hole through the floor near where she was hiding ...

GENEVA – The lack of protection services on major routes used by refugees and migrants is alarming and has become more acute than in recent years, according to a mapping report released today by UNHCR ...