President Michel Suleiman urged donors on Wednesday to provide Lebanon with $370 million assistance for refugees from Syria and called for countries to take in some of the displaced after ringing the alarm bell. The government has approved a $370 million comprehensive plan for the refugees - $180 f...

When Parfait Hakizimana first heard the news that he would be participating in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, he was overjoyed. “I saw the doors open up for me,” he says, beaming with pride as he laces his shoes outside his house in Rwanda’s Mahama refugee camp. For Parfait, 32, the journey to this...

BAPSKA, Croatia-Serbia border, Sept 23 (UNHCR) – More than a thousand refugees and migrants waited under the searing sun all Wednesday at the newly blocked Serbia-Croatia border crossing near Bapska -- hot, distressed and increasingly worried that their trek to safety had been halted in its tracks. ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 24 November 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. On Friday last week, UNHCR, together with our partners IOM and Unicef, expressed our shared concern at...

Central African Republic: saving lives at the river's edge – a story told in pictures - Democratic Republic of the Congo

UNHCR is deeply concerned about the latest reports of deaths at sea on the Mediterranean this weekend. According to the Italian Coast Guard, eight corpses have been recovered so far and at least 52 people are feared missing from two incidents involving large numbers of people on flimsy dinghies off...