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75 Years of the Refugee Convention: Renewing Our Commitment to Protection, Rights and Solutions

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75 Years of the Refugee Convention: Renewing Our Commitment to Protection, Rights and Solutions

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Services for Refugees

UNHCR helps to save lives and build better futures for the millions of people forced to flee their homes.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution, war or disaster at home.

Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, many of whom have nobody left to turn to.

We help to save lives and build better futures for millions forced from home.

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How can I get involved?

Participants of the psychological vulnerability training in Auckland with expert facilitators Guy Coffey and Professor Zac Steel, alongside UNHCR's Katherine Cox.
Strengthening trauma-informed refugee status determination in New Zealand
UNHCR's Multi-Country Office (MCO) for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific recently brought together RSD decision-makers from New Zealand's Refugee Status Branch for two specialized two-day trainings in Auckland.
UNHCR and Australia Renew Their Strategic Partnership for Refugee Protection
UNHCR and Australia Renew Their Strategic Partnership for Refugee Protection
UNHCR and Australia signed an extension of their Strategic Partnership Framework to cover 2027–28, reflecting a shared commitment to protecting vulnerable people, strengthening the international protection system, and advancing practical, solutions-oriented responses to displacement.

Global Trends 2025

Hadigul is carrying his younger sisters, Sabria and Freshta, as they travel together after recently returning to Afghanistan. Despite the hardships they’ve faced, the close-knit family shows resilience and strength as they move forward.

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Global Trends 2025

The latest Global Trends report, published in June 2026, provides key statistical trends on forced displacement. It includes the latest official statistics on refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, as well as the number of refugees who have returned home.

2025 Global Trends Report

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Sweden. Resettlement provides lifeline for Syrian family
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Colombia. Venezuelans risk life and limb to seek help in Colombia
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Afghanistan. UNHCR supports internally displaced families in Kabul priority area
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EMERGENCY APPEAL

Silent Emergencies

While some humanitarian crises remain in the headlines, others are pushed aside to make way for the next disaster. Please donate now to send emergency aid to refugees, wherever and whenever they are forced to flee.

A young woman from South Sudan holds her one-year-old sister.
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AU$ 135

Your $135 can help provide fortified and therapeutic food to children suffering from malnutrition.

AU$ 480

Your $480 can help provide sanitation kits including  soap, water purification tablets and menstrual pads for displaced families to ensure access to safe and hygienic items.

AU$ 825

Your $825 can help provide shelter materials to protect and keep homes sturdy during emergencies and disasters. 

Brazil. Venezuelan Refugee Shelter "Pricumã" in Boa Vista - Roraima
Daily life of Venezuelan refugees in one of the Operação Acolhida shelters in Brazil
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What Can I do to Support?

Everyone has the right to seek and enjoy asylum. But, for many people in many parts of the world, this right is under threat. Solidarity with all refugees, everywhere, is needed more than ever to defend and uphold this right.

Discover 10 ways you can show solidarity with people forced to flee and take action to give hope, protection and safeguard their rights.

10 ways to support refugees

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Who we protect
UNHCR protects people forced to flee conflict and persecution. We are there for refugees, asylum-seekers, people displaced within their own country and stateless persons.
A UNHCR staff member shows a group of Rohingya refugees the direction to a transit centre.
What we do
UNHCR delivers life-saving assistance in emergencies, safeguards fundamental human rights, and helps displaced people find a safe place to call home.
A UNHCR staff member helps an elderly Syrian refugee woman to step down from a bus.
Promoting Refugee Protection
UNHCR supports countries to develop national refugee legislation, increase capacity in refugee status determination and introduce protection safeguards in immigration procedures.