A plane carrying critical relief supplies from the UN Refugee Agency’s global stockpiles in Dubai has landed today in Yangon, Myanmar.The UNHCR-chartered flight, supported by Dubai Humanitarian, ...

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, over 425,000 people have received emergency shelter materials and 273,000 were provided with psychosocial support by UNHCR and its NGO ...

UNHCR knows Sudan well – we have been present there for 60 years. In fact, I started my UN career inside Sudan.The relentless pursuit of war is gradually extinguishing a resilient and generous nation ...

Severe flooding triggered by torrential rains in recent weeks has displaced almost 10,000 people in Tanganyika Province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This unfolding emergency reflects ...

This statement is attributable to Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, marking two years since the outbreak of conflict in Sudan. Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid ...

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The UNHCR branch office in Islamabad manages and supervises the overall country operations with an independent field unit which remotely monitors UNHCR programmes in Punjab and Sindh provinces.

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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 ...

So machen wir unsere ArbeitWenn Krieg ausbricht, ein Konflikt erneut aufflammt oder eine Katastrophe eintritt, müssen Menschen oft in Sekundenschnelle ihr Zuhause und ihr Eigentum verlassen. Wenn sie ...

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 ...

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, ...