News
UNHCR urges humane treatment for refugees, urges collective action on issue
Wednesday 26, August 2015 GENEVA, Aug 25 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency stressed on Tuesday that it was working closely with the Serb authorities to help meet the needs of more than 10,000 refugees and others who have arrived in Serbia in recent days...
Lending a hand in Hungary
Wednesday 15, July 2015 It is dusk by the time volunteers arrive at a busy square in central Budapest. With them, they carry hot food and fresh water – nothing short of a lifeline for the tired and hungry refugee families who are there to meet them. Little...
Total number of Syrian refugees exceeds 4 million
Thursday 9, July 2015 The number of refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria to neighbouring countries has now passed four million, confirming that crisis as the world’s single largest refugee crisis for almost a quarter of a century under UNHCR’s...
Human Stories
Iranian asylum-seeker in Hungary uses sport to heal body and soul
Monday 30, March 2015 VAMOSSZABADI, Hungary, March 30 (UNHCR) – Najib,* a tall, muscular man, sits in the small gym where he exercises, telling a horrifying tale of arbitary punishment against his wife in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Only his passion...
Generosity of Ukrainians helps displaced face winter cold
Wednesday 18, February 2015 KHARKIV, Ukraine, February 11 (UNHCR) – In a room piled to the ceiling with clothes, a bearded man with a grey ponytail is trying on winter coats. Gennady, an architect and graphic artist in his early fifties, is in...
Photo essay: From Nigerian to “Croatian” in three years
Thursday 5, February...