UNHCR’s new 2 Billion Kilometres to Safety campaign invites the public to step in solidarity with refugees
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today announced a new global campaign calling on people all over the world to cover the distance travelled by refugees each year.
UNHCR supports Peaceful Co-existence Projects throughout Ukraine
60 projects in eastern Ukraine and 20 projects in the rest of Ukraine are only a small part of successful local initiatives aimed to support both displaced and host communities to help each other build their future together.
States reach historic deal for refugees and commit to more effective, fairer response
UN General Assembly agrees on an innovative global framework to better serve the forcibly displaced and their host communities.
Cultural space project supported by UNHCR as a platform for peaceful co-existence in Oleksandria
Opening of the Cultural Center in Oleksandriya, Kirovohrad region, has become one of the series opening of peaceful co-existence projects funded by the UN Refugee Agency to help local communities smoothly integrate IDPs in their new home areas.
“UNHCR’s protection cash assistance helped my granddaughter access education with dignity!”
Since 2014, UNHCR has offered individual cash solutions for the protection needs of internally displaced and other conflict affected persons in Ukraine.
Orange the World: #HearMeToo: End Violence against Women
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an international campaign which takes place each year. It commences on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day. Violence against women...
‘I know what it is like. I tell them: Please don’t give up’
UNHCR has more than 11,500 staff. Meet Oleksandra Lytvynenko, who uses her own experience of displacement to help those uprooted by conflict in Ukraine
UNHCR reiterates the importance of eradication of statelessness in Ukraine
It is expected that the introduction of a statelessness determination procedure in Ukraine will ensure better identification and protection of stateless populations.
Working together to solve common problems for IDPs
NGOs, civil society representatives, people from conflict-torn areas and IDPs themselves collaborated in the Together for the Result Forum to discuss the rights of IDPs