Statement on the situation in Ukraine attributed to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi
“It is a dark day for world peace”, Statement of UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on the situation in Ukraine. The humanitarian consequences on civilian populations will be devastating. There are no winners in war, but countless lives will be...
Joint UN mission visits humanitarian-development nexus projects in eastern Ukraine
Osnat Lubrani, United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, joined Dafina Gercheva, UNDP Resident Representative to Ukraine, and Karolina Lindholm Billing, UNHCR Representative in Ukraine on a visit to eastern Ukraine 9-11 February...
United Nations and MDM delivered humanitarian aid to Luhansk oblast
9 February 2022 – Today, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and OCHA, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, facilitated a humanitarian convoy to the non-government-controlled area through the Entry-Exit Checkpoint...
Renovated rehabilitation centre for children with disabilities opens in Popasna
The centre will provide comprehensive rehabilitation services for children and youth from conflict-affected eastern Ukraine.
UNHCR helps improve reception and sanitary facilities at Milove border crossing point in eastern Ukraine so people can cross in safety and dignity
8 February 2022, Milove, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in coordination with Luhansk Oblast Civil Military Administration and with financial support from the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid...
UNHCR’s new protection monitoring tool helps inform humanitarian and development programmes in eastern Ukraine
UNHCR presented its new report on the protection situation in conflict-affected settlements
Strengthened protection for stateless people in Ukraine: 737 stateless persons applied to determine their status in 2021
Across Ukraine, more and more people are becoming “visible” as they receive positive decisions from the Ukrainian state on recognition as stateless.
Through computerisation, UNHCR helps increase access to health services along the contact line in eastern Ukraine
“Last year we saw a fast development of electronic health services in Ukraine. Everything is computerized now, to the point that it became almost impossible to treat patients without a computer. The new electronic system is mandatory for document renewal, obtaining...
UNHCR recommends: films on forced displacement that will not leave you indifferent
Movies allow us to look through the window and get a glimpse of a better understanding of others. A girl next door who wears a hijab and buys fresh bread every morning, a baker who goes to church every Sunday, children in the street chattering in an unfamiliar...