UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling on the Government of Hungary to withdraw a package of laws set to be introduced in the Hungarian Parliament that would significantly restrict the ability of NGOs and individuals to support asylum-seekers and refugees. UNHCR is seriously concerned that these p...

On World Refugee Day, the representative of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Tunisia, Mazin Abu Shanab, expressed his appreciation for Tunisia's efforts to protect refugees and respect their rights. He made the remarks during his meeting with Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi Wednesday in Tuni...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by a recent surge in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which is driving large numbers of Congolese to flee eastwards to neighbouring Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda.

Al Jazeera travels Lake Albert, on the DR Congo-Uganda border, to meet some of the refugees who have fled violence in Congo.

Lake Albert has become ground zero for thousands of Congolese families escaping fierce fighting into Uganda.

The Government of Colombia, led by the Presidency, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management in partnership with UNHCR and IOM, concluded the exercise of mass registration of Venezuelans living in an irregular situation. 442,462 Venezuelans were registered be...

The UN system, under the leadership of The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and The International Organization for Migration (IOM), said it will continue working with the authorities and its partners to expand humanitarian, technical and financial assistance to respond to the needs of Venezuelans, as well ...

South Sudan's government has reached a power-sharing agreement with the country's main rebel group. This agreement will not collapse and I am sure that it will not collapse because the people of South Sudan have now agreed that they must make peace among themselves," he [ Sudanese Foreign Minister A...

The Secretary-General welcomes the signing of the Agreement of Outstanding issues on Governance and Responsibility Sharing by the South Sudanese parties in Khartoum, Sudan, on 5 August, as an important step in the revitalization of the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (ARCS...

Concerned with the ongoing human tragedy in which almost 1,000 refugees and migrants have perished while being smuggled across the Mediterranean this year, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and IOM, the UN Migration Agency, are today appealing to European Union countries for concerted, region-wide actio...