22 Jun 2022
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, this week marked World Refugee Day with a series of events across the Islamic Republic of Iran, under the theme: “Whoever, Wherever, Whenever, Everyone has the right to seek safety”. For the first time in two years since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNHCR […]
10 Apr 2022
UNHCR and WFP help refugee children stay in school and reach for their dreamsNazanin, 11, lives with her mother and eight brothers in a small house in Saveh refugee settlement, in Iran’s central Markazi province. The family fled Afghanistan in 1985 and have been living in Iran since. Nazanin’s [...]
11 Jan 2022
The United Nations and non-governmental organizations will today launch joint response plans aiming to deliver vital humanitarian relief to 22 million people in Afghanistan and support 5.7 million displaced Afghans and local communities in five neighbouring countries. The humanitarian and refugee response plans combined require over US$5 billion in international […]
17 Dec 2021
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, lands in Tehran today on a 3-day mission to the Islamic Republic of Iran.He is scheduled to meet with government counterparts to advocate for access to safety for newly arriving asylum-seekers from Afghanistan, as well as to discuss [...]
15 Dec 2021
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNICEF, the UN Children’s Agency, welcome the contribution of USD 2.5 million by the Republic of Korea in support of programmes to help Afghan refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Today, the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea in Iran, Mr. Yun Kahghyeon, [...]
6 Dec 2021
Tehran, Iran – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the generous contribution of EUR 1.5 million from the Government of Italy, in support of Afghan refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran.As UNHCR continues its efforts to provide protection and assistance to Afghan asylum-seekers who are [...]
30 Nov 2021
The Government of Germany has significantly increased its support for Afghan refugees in 2021, from an initial EUR 3.2 million earlier this year, to EUR 57 million as of November, to support the UN Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) response in the Islamic Republics of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The [...]
18 Nov 2021
Tehran, Iran – The European Commission’s humanitarian branch, namely the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), visited Iran over the last ten days, in order to obtain a first-hand and updated understanding of the context, the needs of Afghan [...]
16 Nov 2021
This evening, the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines landed at Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran, the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, provided as part of the Humanitarian Buffer mechanism of the COVAX Facility to help the government vaccinate more refugees. A second [...]
