UNHCR and IOM shocked and dismayed by deaths near Belarus-Poland border
Joint UNHCR/IOM Press Release
COVID-19 tops list of UNHCR’s most underfunded crises in 2021
New report shows UNHCR’s pandemic response has received just a third of the funds needed for this year, threatening the health and wellbeing of forcibly displaced people globally.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees completes three-day visit to Afghanistan
Concluding a three-day visit to Afghanistan today, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, appealed for urgent and sustained support for Afghans inside the country and for refugees who have fled abroad. “The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan remains...
Forced To Flee: UNHCR podcast tells story of displacement over 70 years
To mark UNHCR’s 70th anniversary, a new seven-part series revisits major upheavals that shaped the period through the eyes of displaced people and others caught up in events.
Critical gaps in refugee education: two thirds of refugee youth might never get to secondary school
UNHCR’s education report highlights the stories of young refugees around the world as they try to keep learning in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 1961 Statelessness Convention: 60 years of promoting and protecting the right to a nationality
Ensuring the right to a nationality and eradicating statelessness is achievable and more pressing than ever, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, stressed today, as the international community marks the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the 1961 UN Convention on the...
UNHCR warns Afghanistan’s conflict taking the heaviest toll on displaced women and children
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
The 1951 Refugee Convention: 70 years of life-saving protection
Today marks 70 years since the 1951 Refugee Convention was signed.
UNHCR urges states to protect refugees’ rights, not to instrumentalize their plight
UNHCR is concerned by the instrumentalization of refugees and migrants by states apparently to achieve political ends.