Worldwide displacement tops 70 million, UN Refugee Chief urges greater solidarity in response
Data from UNHCR’s annual Global Trends report, released today, shows that almost 70.8 million people are now forcibly displaced. To put this in perspective, this is double the level of 20 years ago, 2.3 million more than a year ago, and corresponds to a population...
Event on the occasion of 2019 World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
The event, held on 23 May 2019 at the UN House, gathered some 70 guests, granted the audience the opportunity to listen to the project participants’ own radio broadcasts, their testimonies and genuine chat recorded during the two half-day radio workshops, which were...
Refugee Youth benefitting from the 89th International Session of the European Youth Parliament (EYP) in Yerevan
Owing to the partnership agreement between UNHCR and EYP, a group of ten young people (seven girls and three boys) representing Armenia and Georgia, participated in the nine-day event. Among them were refugees and displaced youth from Iraq, Iran and Syria, an...
Donors pledge US$ 4.4 billion for Syria
Delegates to a donor conference in Brussels pledged US$4.4 billion in aid for Syrians displaced by the war and their host countries in the region on Wednesday. A further $3.4 billion was pledged for 2019 and 2020. The amount for 2018 fell short of the $7 to $8 billion...
New global deal on refugees critical
Wars, other violence and persecution drove worldwide forced displacement to a new high in 2017 for the fifth year in a row, led by the crisis in Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan’s war, and the flight into Bangladesh from Myanmar of hundreds of thousands...
The participants of the international conference “Media Migration” visited the UN Office
This remarkable francophone event hosted by the UNRC and UNHCR, granted all the opportunity of inter-cultural exchange, raised the awareness of the participants on the humanitarian work accomplished by the UN and its partners, learn about the displacement situation...
We stand #WithRefugees
Join the 1,903,012 who have pledged their support! Each day war forces thousands of families to flee their homes. People like you, people like me. To escape the violence, they leave everything behind – everything except their hopes and dreams for a safer future....
Biography of Ms. Anna-Carin Öst
Prior to this, she was serving as UNHCR Representative to UNHCR in Poland from June 2013 – July 2018. Ms. Öst joined UNHCR in 1996, initially working as an Associate Field Officer in Tanzania. Since 1997 she has worked in a range of field duty stations in Europe...
Statement by Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees on the Paris meeting of 28 August
I am encouraged by the announcement of a comprehensive plan of action that will support long-term solutions to the complex issue of mixed migration and help address its root causes, in close cooperation with countries of origin and transit and in line with...