UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi meets with refugees from the Central Africa Republic in Modale site, in the North Ubangi Province, DRC. He is seen here giving a registration refugee card to a young refugee who was just relocated from the boder area in Yakoma to the new Modale site. ...

LESBOS, Greece (UNHCR) – In a weekend mission to the main EU entry point for nearly 450,000 refugees and migrants so far this year, UNHCR chief António Guterres witnessed the improved humanitarian response mounted by Greek local authorities and civil society while lamenting the continued lack of a l...

he United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Derek Plumbly, on Wednesday visited Zahle and Jebb Jennine in West Bekaa, to inspect the condition of the Syrian refugees and the hosting local communities.

9 March 2017 – Serious security threats in north and central Mali put local populations and humanitarian aid workers at risk, a United Nations human rights expert said today. "One indicator of this growing insecurity is the very high number of closed schools in central and northern parts of the c...

LESVOS, Greece, April 4 (UNHCR) – It was in the early hours of a March morning when Monzir's rubber dinghy bumped against the shores of Lesvos, but it was already too late. At midnight that day (March 20), the status of arrivals like Monzir, who have fled war and spent their life savings to chanc...

At 1:00 p.m. on January 6 (local time; 3:00 p.m. Japan time), Mr. Mikio Numata, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, and Mr. Yohei Sasakawa, Special Envoy of the Government of Japan for National Reconciliation in Myanmar, held a press confere...