Press Releases, 26 February 2016 Joint UNHCR, UNICEF Press Release As part of a joint endeavour to step up protection for the growing numbers of children and others with specific needs arriving in Europe, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNICEF are setting up special support centres for childre...

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...