How is the mpox outbreak impacting refugees and displaced people?
How is the mpox outbreak impacting refugees and displaced people?
Lack of clean water and soap present a challenge for mpox prevention efforts in sites for displaced people like this one in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu province.
UNHCR helps to save lives and build better futures for the millions of people forced to flee their homes.
Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital protection and assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, many of whom have nobody left to turn to.
We help to save lives and build better futures for millions forced from home.
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at the end of 2021 as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order.
Low- and middle-income countries hosted 83 per cent of the world’s refugees and Venezuelans displaced abroad.*
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Lebanon emergency
The devastating bombings in Lebanon are claiming innocent lives and forcing thousands to flee their homes, including refugees in Lebanon.
Since October 2023 UNHCR and partners have been supporting with essential relief to both Lebanese citizens and refugees, including core relief items, cash assistance and rehabilitation of collective shelters, as well as psychosocial support. We are rapidly scaling up our efforts, but families urgently need shelter, blankets, clean water, cash assistance, and medical care and will need your support to continue efforts to assist recently displaced people.
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Can provide a shelter kit to a family in Lebanon
is enough to provide one-off cash assistance to a person with specific needs in Lebanon
Can provide a kitchen set for a displaced person
UNHCR Annual Global Trends Report
DATA AND STATISTICS
UNHCR annual Global Trends report 2021
UNHCR's Global Trends report presents key statistical trends and the latest numbers of refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless persons.
If ongoing conflicts remain unresolved and the risks of new ones erupting are not reined in, one aspect that will define the twenty-first century will be the continuously growing numbers of people forced to flee and the increasingly dire options available to them.
