As Lidia Ajuwa, 30, walks down the hill into Kibarizo, a remote village in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu province, she is greeted with smiles as she passes rows of small, grass-thatched houses. Hers is a familiar and friendly face in a region that for years has grappled w...

DAKAR, SENEGAL, 27 October 2016 (UNHCR) – Significant progress has been made to eradicate statelessness around the world, but ongoing conflicts are putting those advances at risk. Marking the second anniversary of the global #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, ...

The Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) would never consider integrating its forces into the Myanmar military or disavow its right to secede from the Union without consulting the Shan community, the group said on Friday. The group issued a statement Friday clarifying its position on two poin...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has congratulated the people of the Central African Republic (CAR) for the adoption of a peace pact that reflects on their aspirations to put the conflict behind them once and for all and to build a more peaceful and democratic country. The Bangui National Forum was ...

GENEVA – The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) is concerned about the increasingly precarious situation at the border between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYR Macedonia), where force was used earlier today to prevent people from crossing. UNHCR is particularly worried about the ...

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 20,000 people in West Africa have gained identity documents in the past year as part of a drive to eradicate statelessness, yet around one million in the region still have no nationality, the United Nations said on Thursday. Stateless people, sometim...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Cécile Pouilly – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 20 June 2017 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency received information last night about three new shipwrecks in the Mediterrane...

Brussels, 9 September 2014 - On 9 September, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia, Nicholas Kay, sat down with journalist Gebeyaw Nigussie Tessema from German broadcaster DW for an interview on a number of Somali-focused political and human rights issues. Below is an excerp...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations International Children Fund (UNICEF) will start the deployment of a survey methodology known as Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), a system to track and monitor the displacement and population mobility and provide a better un...

Niger has declared a 15-day state of emergency in the region around Diffa which borders Nigeria. The move comes in response to attacks by the Boko Haram terror group. The move follows the decision by Niger's parliament on Monday night to send troops across the border to fight the Boko Haram Islam...