UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is present in 136 countries to protect people forced to flee. We deliver life-saving aid to people displaced by conflict and persecution, and ensure those trapped in ...

Syrian refugee Nour Jarrouj calls on the international community to support the efforts of forcibly displaced Syrian women in shaping their nation's future.

Up to 1 million internally displaced people (IDPs) living in camps and displacement sites across north-west Syria intend to return to their areas of origin within the next year, 600,000 of them in the ...

Today, more than 60 million women and girls remain forcibly displaced or stateless across the globe. After having fled conflict, violence and human rights abuses, many continue to live on the ...

GENEVA – On this year’s International Women’s Day, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warns that critical funding shortages are leaving displaced women and girls at unprecedented risk.Reports of ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today issued a new position on returns to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), advising that Congolese nationals fleeing the conflict, as well as those ...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, underscored UNHCR’s unwavering commitment to supporting 1 million Rohingya refugees hosted in Bangladesh as he completed a four-day visit to the ...

For young Rohingya women living in Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh, learning a skill they can use to help support their families opens up new horizons.

As conflict in the eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues, thousands are still crossing the border into Burundi in what has become the largest influx the country has ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, deeply regrets the deportation of some 40 Uyghurs after more than 10 years in Thailand’s detention centres.

Junior Professional Officers (JPOs) are young professionals who are interested in the UN and humanitarian work, who prove able to contribute to UNHCR’s future and its work on behalf of refugees, ...

Frontline communities continue to suffer the dire consequences of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine for a fourth year.