Climate and conflict – aggregating humanitarian crises in Ethiopia
Ethiopia, a country hosting nearly a million refugees and recovering from a violent conflict displacing millions of people, is now facing another humanitarian emergency in the form of deadly weather.
Former refugee wins global Nansen award for championing education for displaced children
GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today that Abdullahi Mire – a former refugee and journalist who has championed the right to education while putting 100,000 books in the hands of refugee children in Kenya – will be the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award’s 2023...
UNHCR: Forced displacement continues to grow as conflicts escalate
War and violence drove global displacement to an estimated 114 million by the end of September 2023.
UNHCR, WHO warn of deteriorating health conditions as 1,200 children die of suspected measles, malnutrition in Sudan
GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the World Health Organization (WHO) are again sounding the alarm on the worsening health situation caused by the Sudan crisis. According to UNHCR teams in Sudan’s White Nile state, more than 1,200 refugee children under 5...
Education on Hold: Almost half of school-aged refugee children from Ukraine missing out on formal education
As the new school year commences across Europe, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning that refugee children and youth from Ukraine now face their third year of disrupted education, following the full-scale invasion in February 2022. In a new Education Policy Brief...
New UNHCR report reveals over 7 million refugee children out of school
GENEVA – More than half of the world’s 14.8 million school-aged refugee children are currently missing out on formal education, risking their future prosperity and the attainment of global development goals, according to a new report published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee...
UNHCR launches ‘Hope Away from Home’ campaign urging global action and solidarity with people forced to flee
GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today launched a new global campaign entitled ‘Hope Away from Home’ calling for renewed solidarity and firm commitments from States to uphold the rights of people seeking safety from war, violence and persecution. The campaign...
Unearmarked funding enables UNHCR to respond to emergencies and forgotten crises
Unearmarked contributions and rapid funding from Denmark have allowed UNHCR to quickly scale up and respond in emergencies such as breakout of conflict in Sudan, the earthquakes in Syria and Türkiye and tragic fires in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.
“Data can inform policies and programmes that can improve the situation for all”
Interview with Danish Maja Lazić, Deputy Head of the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement in Copenhagen on the work and ambitions of the innovative partnership – and on how data and analysis can concretely help improve the response to global...