UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Theo James has returned from Mauritania, where he met with refugees facing the harrowing challenges of displacement. During his visit, James learned about the devastating ...

The escalating conflict and intensified Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon are taking an increasingly devastating toll on civilians in the country, pushing more people to flee to Syria.

A new Global Alliance to End Statelessness was launched in Geneva on Monday 14 October with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi urging States, UN agencies, civil society, stateless-led ...

As conflict in the Middle East and beyond pushes the number of forcibly displaced people globally to 123 million, UN High Commissioner for Refugees urges States to work together for peace and joint ...

Sister Rosita Milesi, a Catholic nun, social worker, activist and lawyer who for decades has led efforts to include and support refugees and migrants in her native Brazil, was celebrated at a ceremony ...

For Shahen Khosrawi, today an officer with Immigration New Zealand and former refugee from Kurdistan, the tent she once called home remains a vivid memory. “Being a refugee was all I knew, it seemed ...

UNHCR lanceerde in oktober 2014 haar #IBelong-campagne om internationale actie te mobiliseren om staatloosheid aan te pakken. De campagne sluit dit jaar. Er is de afgelopen 10 jaar veel actie ...

Cadette d’une famille de 12 enfants, Maimouna Ba est née et a grandi à Dori, petite ville située dans la vaste région aride et isolée du Sahel, à six heures de route de Ouagadougou, la capitale du ...

Un mercredi matin, un groupe de réfugiés, principalement des femmes et des hommes originaires du Soudan et de Syrie, attend dans la salle d'attente d'un centre géré par l'Initiative Rouh dans la ville ...

Genf – Zehn Jahre nach dem Start einer Kampagne gegen Staatenlosigkeit hat UNHCR, das Flüchtlingshilfswerk der Vereinten Nationen, eine positive Bilanz der Aktion gezogen. Mehr als eine halbe Million ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today that South Sudan is now hosting over half a million refugees across 30 locations in the country, mainly in refugee camps in Maban, Jamjang, Wedweil, and ...

More than half a million people around the world who were living in the shadows, deprived of their right to nationality, have now acquired citizenship since the inception a decade ago of the #IBelong ...