By Sebastien Malo UNITED NATIONS, April 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The refugee crisis triggered by conflict in the Middle East should not monopolize the first World Humanitarian Summit, which needs to find solutions to broader humanitarian problems, a top EU official and the head of a lead...

In Dollo Ado, UNHCR initiated an innovative pilot project, the IDEAS BOX, a multi-media library, for Somali refugee children and youth. The project is implemented by Save the Children and Libraries without Borders, in coordination with UNHCR Innovations Unit in Geneva. Facilitated by the governmen...

GORE, Chad, 11 April (UNHCR) – Asia* and her family had no time to pack their belongings. "I had to spend most of my cash, 10,000 FCFA (about USD 20), to get to Chad. We had nothing when we arrived and I had to feed my children," she says. Since early 2013, an estimated 23,000 refugees from the C...

Hollywood actor and model Ger Duany, one of the thousands of orphaned or separated Lost Boys forced to flee Sudan during the 1983-2005 civil war, on Monday was named as a high profile supporter of the UN refugee agency at a film screening in Nairobi. "I am honoured to be recognized as a supporter...

"I cannot stop comparing what life was before and what it has now become. Before the conflict, my biggest worry was studying and getting good marks. All of a sudden I found myself in a camp for displaced people queuing for water and food." Our colleague Rocco recently met Rodha sitting with her m...

More than 60,000 refugees have crossed the Ubangi and Mboumou rivers in the past five months, fleeing the war-torn Central African Republic.

In Roraima, World Refugee Day was celebrated by means of a presentation where messages of hope, gratitude and memories of Venezuela were expressed in murals.

BANGKOK — The Myanmar government said it did not blame the Karen Nation Union (KNU) for setbacks in the national peace process following the ethnic armed group’s recent decision to temporarily suspend participation in negotiations. “We don’t blame anyone in regards to the current peace [process];...

Projeto da Universidade Federal de Roraima em cooperação com a Ericsson, ACNUR e União Europeia já capacitou mais de 530 refugiados e migrantes em Boa Vista com aulas de português e educação digital

Brasília - A doação pela Organização Internacional para as Migrações (OIM) à Secretária Municipal de Saúde de Boa Vista de um ultrassom com alta resolução de imagem permitirá beneficiar até 48 mil usuários do sistema público do município em um ano. A ação complementa as atividades em saúde e de prev...