Actor, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and mother of four Cate Blanchett is the final guest of this season’s award-winning podcast series Awake at Night, hosted by the UN Refugee Agency. A Goodwill ...
In line with UNHCR’s roadmap document, formal consultations on the draft text of the Global Compact on Refugees commenced in 2018. The compact consists of two parts: the comprehensive refugee response ...
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 ...
Are you a refugee, asylum-seeker or stateless person looking for help? Visit the HELP site to find support and services from UNHCR. The DRC remains gripped by one of the world’s most complex ...
NEW YORK / GENEVA – In June 2020, a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement jointly called on governments, the private ...
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, continues to register new refugee arrivals at the Sudanese-Ethiopian border. Some 800 people crossed from Ethiopia’s Tigray region into eastern Sudan in just the first ...
Heavy monsoon rains had been falling incessantly for days when Meher Khatun, 60, noticed water starting to come into the bamboo and tarpaulin shelter she shares with her son, daughter-in-law and ...
Our priorities are to promote enabling conditions for voluntary repatriation, to ensure the exercise of a free and informed choice, and to mobilize support for returnees. In practice, we promote and ...
Yesterday's sea tragedy off Lampedusa, the first major loss of life in the Mediterranean in 2015, is known to have claimed at least 29 lives as information available this morning. UNHCR is both deeply ...
To the Refugee Paralympic Team, Tomorrow it all begins - the greatest Para sport event on earth. Congratulations for being right at the heart of it. You might be nervous now, but that’s expected. When ...
The United Nations and humanitarian partners today launched coordinated emergency appeals for a combined US$1.7 billion to urgently deliver humanitarian support to people in Ukraine and refugees in ...
At first, 102-year-old Saada was reluctant to leave Syria. Even when the bombing started, she simply continued with her daily routine. Eventually, her grandson persuaded her to flee to Lebanon, but ...