The partner of French President Francois Hollande, Valerie Trierweiler, visited on Tuesday a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon to urge for more help to deal with the refugee influx.

The new head of the UN’s refugee agency visited a camp in southeastern Turkey on Friday. Filippo Grandi, who became the High Commissioner for Refugees earlier this month, arrived at the camp in Gaziantep province’s Nizip district where some of the near 2.5 million refugees housed by Turkey are st...

Press Releases, 16 March 2016 UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt is visiting Greece today on behalf of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi. The Special Envoy's mission will concentrate on the humanitarian situation of thousands of refugee families in Greece, most of whom...

Kismayo, 10 September 2014 - The Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Somalia, Fatiha Serour, today visited Kismayo, where she met with the leadership of the Interim Jubba Administration, led by the Deputy IJA Leader Abdulkadir Mohamed Lugadere.

The UN Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Volker Turk, will pay a five-day official working visit to Nigeria from Feb. 18 to 22. This is contained in a statement signed by External Relations Officer, UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Nigeria, Hanson Tamfu in Abuja. It stated th...

Rula Deeb, 26, was born in Damascus and calls Syria her home. But after months of government bombings, indiscriminate violence and rising scarcity of basic goods, Deeb, whose grandparents fled Gaza for Syria in 1948, felt she could no longer safely stay. As a Syrian with Palestinian refugee docum...