News comment by Volker Türk, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, on new Mediterranean shipwreck UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply saddened at the news of another shipwreck in the Mediterranean, which may have left up to 146 people dead or missing. This morning in Lampedusa,...

MONROVIA, LIBERIA, 24 MARCH 2015 (UNHCR) – A former Ethiopian refugee who earned his medical degree with support from UNHCR’s German Academic Refugee Initiative has returned to his roots as a refugee to oversee health and nutrition services in one of Liberia’s three refugee camps. Dr. Zelalem Birha...

"Almost nine in 10 of the world’s refugees are hosted in developing countries, where they often live in remote areas with significant development challenges. The impact on local services, infrastructure and resources “is colossal,” Grandi said. “Host countries have kept their borders open at a time ...

The large majority of the 137,000 people who crossed the Mediterranean Sea into Europe during the first six months of 2015 were fleeing from war, conflict or persecution, making the Mediterranean crisis primarily a refugee crisis, a UNHCR report released today concludes. One third of the men, wo...

Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. GENEVA, September 30 (UNHCR) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres warned today that the global humanitarian system has become dangerously overstretched by new crises in the Middle Ea...

With a population of around 100,000, Maicao currently hosts 30,000 refugees and migrants. An assessment conducted by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in February revealed that half of the 3,500 Venezuelans interviewed were living in the streets or in informal settlements in and around the city. Refu...

One of the tragedies of war, famine and natural disaster is the incidence of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who are trying to flee affected zones to safer areas. All through human civilisation, people have always been victims of man-made violence and even of nature. Therefore, it is expected th...

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...