Inclusion in Ethiopia’s ID system opens new doors for refugees
Inclusion in Ethiopia’s ID system opens new doors for refugees
![A woman wearing a bright red shirt stands behind the counter of a cafe](/africa/sites/afr/files/RF1351494_4.jpg)
Ibtisam Khaled Al-Barti, a Yemeni refugee living in Ethiopia, stands behind the counter of her coffee shop in Addis Ababa's Merkato.
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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![United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Mr. Filippo Grandi during the inauguration of the Refugee Resource Centre, jointly established by the University of Nairobi and UNHCR. The Centre, situated within the University of Nairobi, will complement a pillar of the Government of Kenya’s Shirika Plan – which aims to establish a policy regime that enables sustainable socioeconomic inclusion. It will be a hub for localised research and generating evidence on challenges and solutions to forced displacement, bridging the gap between academia and practitioners of forced displacement. The Centre will hold policy dialogues, roundtables and lectures and knowledge exchange on resilience and sustainable inclusion of refugees, asylum seekers and host communities in Kenya. The establishment of the Refugee Resource Centre is of significant value due to Kenya’s pioneering transformative approach to refugee management, aimed at transitioning the refugee camps into integrated settlements to support the sustainable High level dialogue and launch of the new Refugee Resource Centre](/africa/sites/afr/files/RF1360040.jpg)
![Coulibaly Domba, is an Ivorian butcher, he has been hosting asylum seekers from Burkina Faso in the northern city of Ouangolodougou, Côte d'Ivoire, since May 2022. He says that each month he assists at least 4 families to settle in his locality, by introducing them to authorities, help them register as refugees and find a place to live in. Côte d'Ivoire. Domba Coulibaly hosts refugees from Burkina Faso in Ouangolodougou](/africa/sites/afr/files/RF1293754.jpg)
Climate emergency
This El Nino season has caused global heavy rains, flooding, and landslides. From the East and Horn of Africa to Brazil, families have been flooded out of their homes, with nowhere else to go.
Sadly, disasters like flooding are only going to become more common, as the climate crisis creates more extreme weather patterns and drives more people to flee their homes.
UNCHR is on the ground responding to these climate emergencies, helping people rebuild after losing everything. But we don’t stop there. UNHCR is also working with affected communities to better prepare and adapt to extreme climate conditions.
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![Neziya Nsananikiye sits on the ground A woman sits on the ground in a flooded neighbourhood.](/africa/sites/afr/files/RF1348622_74.jpg)
The climate crisis is no longer a distant threat. It’s happening right now, and those forced to flee conflict are being hit the hardest.
could provide a tent as emergency shelter for families displaced by flooding in Kenya
could provide 10 mattresses so people displaced by the floods do not have to sleep on the ground
could provide five hygiene kits to help prevent the spread of waterborne diseases
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.