UNHCR social short film depicts the main challenges of displacement over the last 25 years in Ukraine
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) created a short film to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the foundation of UNHCR and its 25 year presence in Ukraine. The film looks at the daily challenges faced by internally displaced persons (IDPs) through...
20 Years of Proud Partnership
Celebrating 20 Years of partnership between UNHCR and The International Fund for Public Health and Environment “Carpathian Region” NEEKA
Humanitarian actors seek US$168 million to support 1.9 million conflict-affected people in eastern Ukraine
(Kyiv, 26 November 2020): The Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine Ms. Osnat Lubrani, together with the Ministry for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, launched today the 2021 Humanitarian Response Plan in a bid to meet the needs of 1.9 million...
UNHCR joins the all-Ukrainian campaign for the elimination of violence against women
16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is a campaign which runs until Human Rights Day on 10 December.
UNHCR Voluntary Relocation project helps families escape conflict in eastern Ukraine
Carolina barely knows what a peaceful life looks like. Since the day she was born in 2018, she has been living with her mother in Orekhovo, a village of the Popasna district in Luhansk oblast. Before the conflict started, more than 700 people used to live there. Now,...
UNHCR and the EU ensure mobility for social workers along the contact line in Ukraine
During the COVID-19 pandemic, UNHCR provided 228 bicycles and 35 electric tricycles to communities located nearby the contact line in eastern Ukraine to help medical and social workers reach vulnerable people more quickly.
Elderly IDP participated as a panelist from Ukraine in online Dialogue on Protection Challenges
4 November 2020 – Ms Tamara Inzhutova, an elderly IDP, volunteer at IDP Community Centre in Irpin participated as a panelist from Ukraine in online Dialogue on Protection Challenges – “Protection challenges and responses to COVID-19 for and by forcibly displaced...
Overcoming COVID-19 together: A New Life for an IDP Community
Tamara Maksimovna Inzhutova was born in 1951 in Luhansk. Almost all her life she spent in her native city with her wonderful and strong family. She was a guardian angel of her household. Tamara Maksimovna and her husband Vitaly Oleksiyevich brought up, raised and...
UNHCR opens art-installation “Invisible Children: Under the Risk of Statelessness”
UNHCR Ukraine carries out a social media campaign to raise awareness about the issue of statelessness in Ukraine and to end it by 2024.