This year, the Academy accorded UNHCR the status of a county and for the first time admitted six refugees to the institution. This is a significant step towards offering refugees opportunities for po...

With not enough schools for the children, and a shortfall of funds, classes are having to take place under the trees in refugee camps in Tanzania. But when it rains, or is too windy, school is cancell...

The High-Level Ministerial meeting on refugees was organized by the UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes and International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) in Kampala, Uganda.

One on One with Deputy UNHCR Chief Kelly T. Clements (KTN News Kenya)

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After two years of extensive consultations led by UNHCR with member states, international organizations, refugees, civil society, the private business sector and experts, this new global deal will pro...

Children, who make up more than half of the refugee population, are bearing the brunt.

“We think that an inclusive approach, based on investment in education and employment, is a much better and more sustainable, more dignified, model that really gives refugees opportunities for the fut...

“We need continued solidarity to meet the basic needs and protection for the majority of Burundian refugees who are not yet ready to go home and live in overcrowded camps with limited opportunities to...

In an address to UNHCR staff in Geneva to mark World Humanitarian Day, Grandi emphasized the crucial work carried out by thousands of UNHCR, UN Refugee Agency, colleagues working in duty stations from...