Mixed movements (or mixed migration) refers to flows of people travelling together, generally in an irregular manner, over the same routes and using the same means of transport, but for different ...

Health is a fundamental human right for all, including refugees. Refugees should have access to the same or similar healthcare as host populations, as outlined in the 1951 Refugee Convention. Many ...

Millions of people around the world are denied the right to a nationality, leaving them stateless. As a result, they may be unable to access other basic rights and services, such as being able to go ...

WASH is the collective term for water, sanitation and hygiene. While each is a separate field of work, they are interdependent and contribute to the overall protection, health, well-being and ...

UNHCR has been working with NGOs since we first began helping the forcibly displaced in the early 1950s. As our work and size grew to cope with emerging refugee crises in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, ...

Explainer: War in Ukraine - the human cost and humanitarian response We’re sorry, some parts of the UNHCR.org website don’t work properly without JavaScript ...

Up to 1 million internally displaced people (IDPs) living in camps and displacement sites across north-west Syria intend to return to their areas of origin within the next year, 600,000 of them in the ...

GENEVA – On this year’s International Women’s Day, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warns that critical funding shortages are leaving displaced women and girls at unprecedented risk. Reports of ...

Die letzten 14 Jahre haben sich in meine Seele eingebrannt. Ich erinnere mich noch genau an den Tag, an dem die Rufe nach Freiheit in meiner Stadt Homs ertönten. Ich war gerade 17 Jahre alt, und Aufre ...

As conflict in the eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues, thousands are still crossing the border into Burundi in what has become the largest influx the country has ...

Syrian refugee Nour Jarrouj calls on the international community to support the efforts of forcibly displaced Syrian women in shaping their nation's future.