UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

More than one million people have fled the war in Sudan to seek refuge in neighbouring South Sudan, according to the United Nations. In its latest update on one of the world’s worst displacement ...

The world’s political and business elite present in Davos on Wednesday faced an uncompromising address from UN chief António Guterres as he rounded on a lack of multilateral collaboration in an ...

As world leaders gather at Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting from 20 to 24 January, UN Women will highlight that gender equality is a fundamental human right, and it’s ...

The resource-rich eastern provinces of North and South Kivu – which are home to more than 4.6 million displaced people according to the agency – have been mired in conflict for three decades ...

Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) on Friday welcomed the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal, pledging to scale up aid delivery across the stricken ...