The LEGO Foundation and UNHCR come together to bring the power of learning through play to refugee children in Ethiopia
The partnership ensures 37,500 refugee and host community children can continue their education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Finnish funding supports Somali refugees
As conflict and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic exacerbate insecurity, UNHCR, supported by Finland, protects Somali refugees, regardless of their age, gender, and disability.
Q&A: “International solidarity has never been more important than now”
Jakob Århem, Public Health Officer with UNHCR in Lebanon, explains how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting refugees in the country, and underlines why refugee inclusion in national vaccination plans is so important.
A decade of death, destruction and displacement must not sap our solidarity with Syrians
Statement attributable to Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees
COVID-19 pandemic worsening gender inequalities for refugee women and girls
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is threatening the lives and rights of refugee, displaced and stateless women and girls, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning on International Women’s Day today. “The unprecedented socio-economic impacts of the pandemic are...
Observations from UNHCR on Danish law proposal on externalization
UNHCR’s observations to the Danish government’s law proposal on the possibility to transfer asylum-seekers to asylum processing and accommodation in third countries.
UN Agencies welcome relocation of vulnerable asylum-seekers to Norway
3 March 2021, OSLO: The International Organization for Migration (IOM), UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund, jointly welcome the relocation of 35 vulnerable asylum-seekers from Greece to Norway today. This is the first relocation to Norway...
Stories from the Field: “There is a need for greater solidarity with frontline states”
An interview with our Swedish colleague Anne-Birgitte Krum-Hansen in Valletta, Malta. “Stories from the Field” is an interview series providing insight into the daily lives of some of our Nordic and Baltic colleagues, working for the organization all over the world....
Helping vulnerable children to find their inner hero
Syrian refugee wins UNHCR Innovation Award for an inventive project that helps vulnerable children overcome trauma linked to past experiences.
The Novo Nordisk Foundation supports UNHCR’s humanitarian efforts in Ethiopia with vital contribution
With hundreds of thousands fleeing, the need for emergency aid in Tigray is enormous. The Novo Nordisk Foundation provides much-needed support for UNHCR’s relief work.
UNHCR calls for inclusion of refugees in vaccination plans
As COVID-19 vaccines start getting rolled out around the world, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, calls for refugees, internally displaced, and stateless people to be included in national vaccination strategies. Given that at least 70 per cent of a population need to be...
Corona causes anxiety – also for refugees
The global corona pandemic leaves its mark on the lives of refugees in Estonia. UNHCR investigated how they cope with the crisis.