High Commissioner Filippo Grandi’s message on World Refugee Day 2025
High Commissioner Filippo Grandi’s message on World Refugee Day 2025
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 or war at home.
Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital protection and 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.
By the end of April 2025, 122.1 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide.
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Low- and middle-income countries host 73 per cent of refugees.
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