UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning of a looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as the escalating conflict brings increased human suffering and civilian displacement. An estimated 270,000 Afghans have been newly displaced inside the country since January 2021 – primarily due to insecurit...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, urges greater support to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, warning that leaving Afghans and their host communities behind will have a far-reaching and negative impact on global efforts to fight the virus. The coronavirus poses a ve...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Matthew Saltmarsh – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Yangon, 25 July — The government and ethnic armed groups expressed optimism Saturday about breaking an impasse on a draft national ceasefire deal at the next round of talks, despite holding different views on the number of signatories to the truce deal. Government and ethnic negotiators the previ...

Mae Pa, Thailand – The UN’s refugee agency unveiled a draft plan this week detailing how to carry out the voluntary repatriation of 110,000 refugees residing in Thailand’s camps, drawing mixed reactions from camp leaders. Thailand currently has more than 110,000 refugees from Burma residing in ni...

တနွံညါအံၤအတီၢ်ပူၤဘၣ်ကီဘၣ်ခဲတၢ်ကရၢကရိလၢဘီမုၢ်စၢဖှိၣ်ကရၢပာ်ဖျါထီၣ်ဝဲတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤအလံာ်ပတြီာ်လၢလၢပှဲၤပှဲၤလၢကဟံးထီၣ် ဖီၣ်ထီၣ်ဝဲပှၤဘၣ်ကီဘၣ်ခဲဖိလၢအိၣ်ဆိးဖဲကီၢ်ကၠီၣ်တဲၣ်ဒဲကဝီၤပူၤ(၁၁၀,၀၀၀)ဂၤအတၢ်က့ၤကဒါက့ၤလၢအနီၢ်ကစၢ်ဒၣ်ဝဲဒ်လၢအတၢ်သးအိၣ် အဖီခိၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.တၢ်ပာ်ဖျါထီၣ်ဝဲလံာ်ပတြီာ်အံၤအဖီခိၣ်ထံၣ်န့ၢ်ဝဲဒဲကဝီၤခိၣ...

Speaking to business, academic and administrative representatives from 4 northern provinces on Saturday, 22 August, the head of the newly established consulate general of Burma said Naypyitaw would consider opening new border checkpoints only after the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) has been s...

တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံးဆိုင်ရာအပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေးသဘောတူစာချုပ် NCA ကိုလက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးရန်အတွက်နိုင်ငံ တော်သမ္မတ ၊တပ်မ တော်ကာကွယ်ရေးစစ်ဦးစီးချုပ်နှင့်တိုင်းရင်းသားလက်နက်ကိုင်ထိပ်သီးခေါင်းဆောင် များနေပြည်တော်၌တွေ့ဆုံဆွေးနွေးရန် ရက်မသတ်မှတ်နိုင်သေးကြောင်းသိရသည်။ မြန်မာ့ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးစင်တာ MPC ၏ညှိနှိုင်းချက်...

ဖဲမုၢ်တနံၤလၢမုၢ်အတၢ်ကိၢ်ဟဲဆဲးဖျိလီၤဝဲဒၣ်ဆူဒဲဝၣ်ဖိအပဲတြီလၢဘၣ်အိးထီၣ်အီၤအံၤဖဲန့ၣ်အကတီၢ်နီၢ်စိဒိၡိဒိၣ်ဟ့ၢ်ကွၢ်ပဝဲသ့ၣ်တ ဖၣ်တၢ်ဂီၤလၢအဝဲတၢ်အပူၤတၢ်မၤလၢအဝဲမၤတ့ၢ်ဝဲသ့ၣ်တဖၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.ကဆီဒီးထိၣ်တၤမံၤတၢ်ဂီၤအိၣ်လၢလီၢ်မံဒါဒီးခိၣ်ဖၢၣ်အလိၤဒီး ဟါတၢ်အီၣ်အစီၤနီၣ်ခိၣ်အဃံလၤလၢအိၣ်ဒီးဖီဖိသ့ၣ်တဖၣ်အါကလုာ်လၢထုးန့ၢ်ပှၤသး(မ့...

Talks held between Myanmar’s President Thein Sein and leaders of the country’s armed ethnic groups Wednesday ended with a tentative agreement to sign a nationwide cease-fire agreement (NCA) next month, according to sources and state media. Hla Maung Shwe, senior advisor of the government-affiliat...