DAMASCUS – One month after hostilities intensified in the region and in Lebanon, Syria has seen a sharp rise in people ...

As the crisis in Sudan moves into its fourth year, fighting still rages in large parts of the country, causing new ...

Learn about UNHCR’s emergency response in the Middle East, including Iran, Lebanon and other countries involved in ...

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 ...

Established in 2020, the Refugee Advisory Group is the main representative body of regional, national and global refugee representatives influencing policy decision-making on resettlement and ...

UNHCR provides these comments in response to the UK Government’s policy paper ‘Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy’ published in November 2025.

BAKU – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, unveiled today the “Refugees for Climate Action” network, an initiative designed to amplify the voices of displaced communities in the global climate debate. The ...

Some fled with no warning at all. Others had weeks or months to anxiously weigh their options – until mounting danger finally forced them to leave their homes behind. Over the past seven years, UNHCR ...

GENEVA – Between 600,000 and 1 million Iranian households are now temporarily displaced inside Iran as a result of the ongoing conflict, according to preliminary assessments, representing up to 3.2 ...

Thousands of people, including refugees, continue to be caught up in the ongoing El Niño-triggered heavy rains and severe flooding sweeping across East Africa. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is ...

The NARE (Needs Assessment for Refugee Emergencies) Analytical Framework enables analysis that can provide a holistic picture of the situation of refugees in emergency contexts, and inform ...

GENEVA – The war that erupted without warning turned previously peaceful Sudanese homes into cemeteries. Now, fighting is growing in scope and brutality, affecting the people of Sudan, and the world ...