GENEVA – Uganda, Africa’s largest refugee host, is witnessing a sharp increase in the number of Congolese refugees crossing its western border due to increased insecurity in the eastern part of the ...

Two years since the start of the war in Sudan, the news remains exceedingly grim.The world's most damaging displacement crisis is now happening amid the worst humanitarian funding situation in decades ...

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Some 400,000 Syrians have returned from neighbouring countries since the fall of the Assad regime on 8 December 2024, according to estimates by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. During the same period, ...

UNHCR and its partners are being forced to close or scale back health, education and other crucial programmes for refugees in Chad due to severe funding shortages.

Human trafficking takes place in every region of the world: Human beings are sold, bought and traded much like objects. Victims of trafficking end up in the hands of traffickers because they are being ...

With more than 122.6 million forcibly displaced globally due to war, persecution, conflict, and human rights violations, UNHCR’s work has never been more important. Predictable and flexible funding ...

The international legal definition of a stateless person is “a person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law”. In simple terms, this means that a stateless ...

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the decision by the Egyptian Ministry of Interior to extend the validity of asylum-based residence permits from six months to one year. This important measure ...