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At a glance In total, 507 households that complied with UNHCR-developed eligibility criteria received emergency monetary assistance. The overall budget for extra one-time cash assistance related to COVID-19 comprised around USD 125,000. Personal data on beneficiaries...

The commemoration events included a variety of activities, e.g. a special WRD awareness-raising session with a group of journalists and Media NGOs on the global refugee trends and the refugee situation in Armenia and worldwide, watched and discussed WRD thematic...

Data from UNHCR’s annual Global Trends report, released today, shows that almost 70.8 million people are now forcibly displaced. To put this in perspective, this is double the level of 20 years ago, 2.3 million more than a year ago, and corresponds to a population...

The event, held on 23 May 2019 at the UN House, gathered some 70 guests, granted the audience the opportunity to listen to the project participants’ own radio broadcasts, their testimonies and genuine chat recorded during the two half-day radio workshops, which were...

Owing to the partnership agreement between UNHCR and EYP, a group of ten young people (seven girls and three boys) representing Armenia and Georgia, participated in the nine-day event. Among them were refugees and displaced youth from Iraq, Iran and Syria, an...

Delegates to a donor conference in Brussels pledged US$4.4 billion in aid for Syrians displaced by the war and their host countries in the region on Wednesday. A further $3.4 billion was pledged for 2019 and 2020. The amount for 2018 fell short of the $7 to $8 billion...

Wars, other violence and persecution drove worldwide forced displacement to a new high in 2017 for the fifth year in a row, led by the crisis in Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan’s war, and the flight into Bangladesh from Myanmar of hundreds of thousands...

This remarkable francophone event hosted by the UNRC and UNHCR, granted all the opportunity of inter-cultural exchange, raised the awareness of the participants on the humanitarian work accomplished by the UN and its partners, learn about the displacement situation...

Join the 1,903,012 who have pledged their support! Each day war forces thousands of families to flee their homes. People like you, people like me. To escape the violence, they leave everything behind – everything except their hopes and dreams for a safer future....