UNHCR and its partners are being forced to close or scale back health, education and other crucial programmes for refugees in Chad due to severe funding shortages.

Many of the 3.6 million people inside Myanmar who fled their homes during the last four years of conflict once again lost everything in the 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck the country on 28 March ...

When a crisis erupts and people are forced to flee their homes, UNHCR is there to provide safety and life-saving assistance. This is how we do it.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and partners today called on the ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee ...

Without adequate resources, an estimated 12.8 million displaced people, including 6.3 million children, could be left without life-saving health interventions in 2025, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency ...

A critical shortage of funds has forced UNHCR to suspend life-saving medical treatment and other assistance to refugees in Egypt, including many who fled the brutal civil war still raging in Sudan.

As the title of the UNHCR Sport Strategy suggests, for stateless, refugees and others displaced by conflict and persecution, sport is ‘More than a Game’. For these individuals and communities sport ...

The climate crisis is amplifying displacement and making life harder for those already forced to flee. Climate change and displacement are increasingly interconnected. As extreme weather events and ...

Who is an ‘asylum-seeker’? An asylum-seeker is someone who is seeking international protection. Their request for refugee status, or complementary protection status, has yet to be processed, or they ...

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 ...

A massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on 28 March with its epicentre near the country’s second largest city of Mandalay, resulting in widespread loss of life, injury and ...