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UNHCR mourns loss of staff member killed in Pakistan bombing
10 Jun 2009 UNHCR staff mourn their colleague, Aleksandar Vorkapic, who was killed in the bombing of the Pearl Continental Hotel in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. -
Thousands more on the move in Pakistan
5 Jun 2009 The lifting of a curfew allows more Pakistanis to flee as UNHCR prepares new camps to shelter them. -
UNHCR steps up aid for desperate Pakistani civilians
29 May 2009 As locals continue to flee violence in north-west Pakistan, UNHCR increases efforts to help those living outside camps with host families and in schools -
Mobile registration unit brings documents to Colombia's conflict zones
28 May 2009 A UNHCR-supported project offers long-missing vital legal identity cards to many citizens in conflict areas of Colombia. -
Generous Pakistani civilians donate food, other aid and cash to displaced
26 May 2009 Pakistanis dig into their pockets to help the hundreds of thousands of compatriots forced to flee their homes in the north-west of the country. -
Flood of displaced civilians in Pakistan surpasses 1.45 million
19 May 2009 In northern Pakistan’s massive displacement crisis, the number of people who have fled fighting in the north-west surges to 1.45 million. -
UNHCR chief ends mission to Pakistan as number of displaced surpasses 1 million
18 May 2009 UN refugee chief António Guterres concludes a three-day mission to Pakistan in which he called for urgent and massive international help for more than 1.17 million people uprooted by fighting in the north-west. -
UNHCR's Guterres warns of humanitarian disaster as latest Pakistan displacement tops 900,000
15 May 2009 UNHCR chief says the international community must mount an immediate and massive humanitarian response to help hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis. -
Number of newly displaced in Pakistan nears 700,000
13 May 2009 The number of people who have fled fighting in north-west Pakistan this month and been registered reaches some 670,000.