UNHCR announces push to end statelessness worldwide by end-2024
UNHCR is today launching a global “I Belong” campaign aimed at ending within 10 years the problem of statelessness – a devastating legal limbo for the millions of people worldwide who lack any nationality and the human rights protections that go with...
Delivery of First Housing Solutions within Regional Housing Programme
The contracts with representatives from 9 municipalities and towns were signed today in Stara Pazova. Within the second RHP Serbia sub-project, 200 apartments for refugees will be built in Šid, Sremska Mitrovica, Šabac, Kruševac, Prokuplje, Paraćin, Kikinda, Bajina...
Refugee Total Hits 3 Million As Syrians Flee Growing Insecurity And Worsening Conditions
Syria’s intensifying refugee crisis will today surpass a record three million people, amid reports of increasingly horrifying conditions inside the country – cities where populations are surrounded, people are going hungry and civilians are being targeted...
145,000 Syrian refugee women fight for survival as they head families alone
One quarter of Syrian refugee women caught in a spiral of poverty, isolation and fear More than 145,000 Syrian refugee families in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan – or one in four of all households – are headed by women facing a lone fight for survival, a...
UNHCR Appeals to the Governments in Southeastern Europe to Accelerate Process of Finding Durable Solutions for 60,000 Refugees and 311,000 Internally Displaced Still in the Region
On 28 June 2014, the world will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the events in Sarajevo that triggered the outbreak of the First World War. The deaths and displacement of millions in WWI and the conflicts that followed took a heavy toll on Europe’s...
Global forced displacement tops 50 million for first time since World War II – UNHCR Report
A report released today by UNHCR shows that the number of refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people worldwide has, for the first time in the post-World War II era, exceeded 50 million people. UNHCR’s annual Global Trends report, which is based on...
On The World Refugee Day: Twenty New Apartments For Vulnerable Idp Families In Bujanovac
Bujanovac, 20 June 2014 – Today, when we are marking the World Refugee Day, fifteen internally displaced families from collective centres on the territory of the municipality of Bujanovac and five domicile, socially vulnerable families received the keys to their...
UNHCR recommends starting the cessation process for refugees from Croatia
The UN Refugee Agency is today recommending that the process of ceasing refugee status of refugees displaced from Croatia in the 1990s begins. Almost 20 years after the conflict in the former Yugoslavia ended, the circumstances that triggered displacement have...
Joint Press Release
Public urged to voice their outrage and demand action to prevent a lost generation in Syria Children cannot afford another year of bloodshed, suffering and missed education, warn aid agencies UNICEF, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Mercy...