GENEVA – This year, more than 42,000 refugees have been able to return home voluntarily in the West and Central Africa region ...
UNHCR High Commissioner’s statement to the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly New York, 6 November 2025 ...
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned as escalating, brutal violence in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North ...
The 2025 Mid-Year Trends report provides key statistics on refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people globally from the first six months of 2025.
UNHCR and its partners have come together to pledge on refugee higher education and self-reliance to guarantee that 15% of refugee youth will have access to the transformative power of higher ...
Who is an ‘asylum-seeker’? An asylum-seeker is someone who is seeking international protection. Their request for refugee status, or complementary protection status, has yet to be processed, or they ...
As of the end of 2024, the most recent reporting period, 123.2 million people had been forced to flee their homes globally due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events ...
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Protecting all people forced to flee and those denied a nationality. Seeking asylum is a human right. Anyone fleeing persecution, conflict, or human rights abuses has a right to seek protection in ...
UNHCR has been working with NGOs since we first began helping the forcibly displaced in the early 1950s. As our work and size grew to cope with emerging refugee crises in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, ...
Standing Committee 2020 High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges, Oral Update by the Assistant High Commissioner ...
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