GENEVA – The majority of refugees from Ukraine hope to return home as soon as possible but around two-thirds expect to stay in their current host countries until hostilities subside and the security ...

Over a quarter of a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have now been jointly registered and provided with identity cards by the Bangladesh authorities and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Rohingya ...

UNHCR is this week airlifting shelter supplies to the remote and high altitude area of Utror in northwest Pakistan's Kalam Tehsil. The aim is to get warm shelter to flood victims in Upper Swat before ...

UNHCR has been led by eleven High Commissioners since it was first established in 1950. Together with our staff and partners, they have spent over 70 years working to help the millions forced to flee ...

National partners collectively raise over half of UNHCR’s annual private-sector income from corporations, foundations, philanthropists and almost two million individual donors globally. In addition to ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, continues to scale up its operations in Poland to provide aid to refugees from Ukraine who have settled across the country. Poland remains the main country of arrival for ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is gravely concerned about reports of the forced return of a Zimbabwean asylum-seeker by Zambia to his country of origin. A senior Zimbabwean politician expressed the ...

UNHCR spokespeople are available at our headquarters in Geneva, our regional offices and in many of our field operations to answer media enquiries and provide interviews. Our content team provides ...

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today signed an agreement intended to improve health services for refugees and other displaced ...

How does a father who has spent years apart from his two daughters prepare for a reunion? Girmay put on his best suit and held a big balloon that said “I Love You” as he waited for them to land at ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is appealing for humanitarian access to reach tens of thousands of people in dire need after they fled escalating violence, clashes, and military operations in the ...

Roda Jock*, a 28-year-old South Sudanese refugee who fled to Ethiopia’s Gambella region in 2018, would not have ventured into the forest alone if there had been enough food at home for her and her ...