Escalating conflict is driving record levels of gender-based violence, displacement and hunger in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), threatening to push the country to the ...

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today launched the UNHCR Climate Resilience Fund, seeking to boost the protection of ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and global development organization Education Above All (EAA) Foundation have signed a new, five-year agreement aimed at addressing the global challenge of out-of-school ...

Following the passage of the “Safety of Rwanda” Bill by the UK Parliament, two UN leaders have again sounded the alarm on the harmful impact it will have on global responsibility-sharing, human rights ...

Jannatara, 18, was six months pregnant and recently widowed when she boarded a boat from Bangladesh where she had been living in one of the sprawling camps for Rohingya refugees since fleeing ...

Raphael Basemi’s recycling business is providing jobs for other refugees and the host community and helping preserve the environment in Kenya’s Kakuma camp.

Their paths have never crossed. They don't know each other, and yet there is something that connects Andrea and Johan: the most important moment of their lives happens to be the same. It was the ...

In Chicago’s Albany Park, a once vacant urban plot has been transformed into a vibrant center of community and growth. Here, the Global Garden Refugee Training Farm thrives. It is a place where over a ...

On 20 March, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency in Ethiopia, the Government of Ethiopia’s Refugees and Returnees Service (RRS) and over 130 partners, including UN agencies, government ministries, national ...

Their paths have never crossed. They don't know each other, and yet there is something that connects Andrea and Johan: the most important moment of their lives happens to be the same. It was the ...

GENEVA – We Were Here, a three-part video series produced in partnership by UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, and YouTube to challenge perceptions about refugees, has won the people’s choice award in the ...

Anne*, 18, a Congolese refugee living in the Mahama camp in Rwanda, embodies the resilience of displaced young mothers when life gets tough. Anne’s arduous journey began in 2012 when, at the tender ...