GENEVA – The lack of protection services on major routes used by refugees and migrants is alarming and has become more acute than in recent years, according to a mapping report released today by UNHCR ...

Good afternoon. Thank you, Georgetown University – and in particular the School of Foreign Service and the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) – for hosting this event, and ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, estimates that more than 2.9 million refugees worldwide will need resettlement next year, according to the Projected Global Resettlement Needs 2025 report released today.

In a sub-basement beneath UNHCR’s wedge-shaped headquarters in Geneva, a vast warren of rolling stack shelves contains the physical archives of the UN Refugee Agency’s more than 70 years of operation.

Torrential rains across the East and Horn of Africa have washed away homes, leaving thousands of people displaced. When flooding occurs, it is often refugees and other displaced people who are among ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned about the fast-growing humanitarian crisis in the Sahel Region. In the Central Sahel countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, over 3.3 million ...

This message is for all of us and it is fitting for the Security Council, as you face today’s grave challenges to peace and security. It is a crucial message, if we are to move beyond empty talk and ...

GENEVA – Almost one month after the start of heavy rains in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is expanding its response with national authorities to meet the ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is profoundly concerned about the new asylum measures announced today by the United States which impose harsh restrictions on the right to seek asylum in the country. The ...

Fast 80 Millionen Menschen auf der Erde wurden aus ihrer Heimat vertrieben. Sie haben alles zurückgelassen: ihre Existenz, ihre Heimat, ihr ganzes bisheriges Leben. Was ...

Rede des UN-Flüchtlingshochkommissars vor dem Sicherheitsrat der Vereinten Nationen 31. Mai 2024 Ich danke Ihnen, Herr Präsident, es ist mir eine Ehre, während der Präsidentschaft Mosambiks mein tradi ...