Actor, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and mother of four Cate Blanchett is the final guest of this season’s award-winning podcast series Awake at Night, hosted by the UN Refugee Agency. A Goodwill ...

In line with UNHCR’s roadmap document, formal consultations on the draft text of the Global Compact on Refugees commenced in 2018. The compact consists of two parts: the comprehensive refugee response ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is gravely concerned about reports of the forced return of a Zimbabwean asylum-seeker by Zambia to his country of origin. A senior Zimbabwean politician expressed the ...

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, continues to register new refugee arrivals at the Sudanese-Ethiopian border. Some 800 people crossed from Ethiopia’s Tigray region into eastern Sudan in just the first ...

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today commended the Royal Thai Government’s adoption of a resolution that will grant long-staying refugees from Myanmar the right to work in Thailand.

The United Nations and humanitarian partners today launched coordinated emergency appeals for a combined US$1.7 billion to urgently deliver humanitarian support to people in Ukraine and refugees in ...

At first, 102-year-old Saada was reluctant to leave Syria. Even when the bombing started, she simply continued with her daily routine. Eventually, her grandson persuaded her to flee to Lebanon, but ...

Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)’s poverty alleviation arm, the Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development (ISFD), have signed an ...

Important results have been achieved worldwide this year to help resolve the devastating impact of statelessness, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, reports today as it marks the 9 th anniversary of its ...

The co-founder of a Yemeni humanitarian organization whose team stayed on the ground during the worst of the country’s fighting to help their displaced compatriots tonight accepted the 2021 UNHCR ...

When Abdullahi Mire first arrived in Dadaab refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya at the age of three, he was fascinated with the letters and words he saw on billboards and on the plastic sheets that ...