You think you understand places,” says author and Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, reflecting on the challenges he ...

The 2025 Mid-Year Trends report provides key statistics on refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people globally from the first six months of 2025.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned as escalating, brutal violence in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North ...

Four United Nations agencies today called for urgent international attention on the crisis in Sudan, to address the immense ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is appalled and deeply saddened by the avoidable and tragic loss of life at sea of some 80 ...

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Standing Committee 2020 High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges, Oral Update by the Assistant High Commissioner ...

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Refugees are in extremely vulnerable circumstances, lacking the protection of their own countries and facing immense challenges to their safety and well-being. The 1951 Refugee Convention, ...

UNHCR uses cash transfers to provide protection, assistance and services to vulnerable displaced persons. This allows them to meet their most pressing needs, build and support livelihoods, and ...

Dear Refugee is an occasional series featuring real letters from young people to refugees who have shaped their lives. If you are interested in writing a letter to a forcibly displaced, stateless, or ...

Are you a refugee, asylum-seeker or stateless person looking for help? Visit the HELP site to find support and services from UNHCR. Bangladesh hosts the largest refugee settlement in the world. Most ...