UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Theo James has returned from Mauritania, where he met with refugees facing the harrowing challenges of displacement. During his visit, James learned about the devastating ...

The escalating conflict and intensified Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon are taking an increasingly devastating toll on civilians in the country, pushing more people to flee to Syria.

As conflict in the Middle East and beyond pushes the number of forcibly displaced people globally to 123 million, UN High Commissioner for Refugees urges States to work together for peace and joint ...

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 ...

Sister Rosita Milesi, a Catholic nun, social worker, activist and lawyer who for decades has led efforts to include and support refugees and migrants in her native Brazil, was celebrated at a ceremony ...

A new Global Alliance to End Statelessness was launched in Geneva on Monday 14 October with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi urging States, UN agencies, civil society, stateless-led ...

For Shahen Khosrawi, today an officer with Immigration New Zealand and former refugee from Kurdistan, the tent she once called home remains a vivid memory. “Being a refugee was all I knew, it seemed ...

More than half a million people around the world who were living in the shadows, deprived of their right to nationality, have now acquired citizenship since the inception a decade ago of the #IBelong ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today that South Sudan is now hosting over half a million refugees across 30 locations in the country, mainly in refugee camps in Maban, Jamjang, Wedweil, and ...

GENEVA – Ahead of the launch of the Global Alliance to End Statelessness, the Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights (PIERR), a group of UN and regional human rights experts, issued the ...

Internationally acclaimed British author Neil Gaiman began working with UNHCR in 2013 and served as a global Goodwill Ambassador from 2017 to 2019. Neil played a central role in supporting UNHCR’s ...