Teaching Tolerance Through Football in Ukraine
In Ukraine, Sasha Fomichov is CEO and head coach at the League of Tolerance in Ivano-Frankivsk. He took a series for Goal Click Refugees showing groups including underprivileged kids attending a free football school supported by national champions FC Shakhtar Donetsk,...
List of events by UNHCR and partners on the occasion of the World Refugee Day 2021
On 20 June, the global community is observing World Refugee Day, an international day designated by the United Nations to honor the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their homes to escape conflict or persecution. This year, the World Refugee...
Karolina Lindholm Billing assumes the function of UNHCR Representative in Ukraine
Karolina Lindholm Billing presented her credentials to the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Emine Dzheppar, today 2 June, and expressed her eagerness to continue working closely with the Ukrainian Government, UN and NGO partners, donors, private and civil...
Forcibly displaced and conflict affected people in the east of Ukraine defend their rights with support from the European Union
Seven years of conflict in Eastern Ukraine and the occupation of Crimea have created numerous legal problems for the forcibly displaced and conflict affected people
35 years after Chornobyl nuclear accident, a liquidator suffers consequences of the armed conflict
For 8 years, elders have been carrying the burden of the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
Innovative ‘Ukrainian New York’ community centre opens in Donetsk Oblast
Social hub in Novhorodske designed to unite community, be a place to set up public organizations, study the history of the village, and find ways to further develop it
Statement on the occasion of 50th anniversary of the declaration of International Roma day – 8 april 2021
On the occasion of International Roma Day, celebrated worldwide on 8 April, we would like to send our warm wishes to all Roma in Ukraine. This year, on 8 April, the International Roma Day celebrates its 50th anniversary and it’s the day to celebrate Romani culture,...
Denys Savchenko, CrimeaSOS: From three volunteers to a network working with 73 IDP initiatives
After seven years of internal displacement, IDPs-changemakers make difference in their communities
UNHCR welcomes new resolution adopted by the government of Ukraine aimed at ending statelessness in Ukraine
Every person has a right to belong