Like a teenager anywhere, 13-year-old Vika Fursova listens to music on her smartphone. But instead of popular hits she is listening to is her own improvisation on the piano. Soft, like rain, it comforts her after a harrowing journey from war-torn Ukraine. Vika was born blind, so sound has always ...

Jest to kurs orientacyjny online mający na celu wzmocnienie kompetencji podmiotów sektora opieki zdrowotnej pracujących w sytuacjach kryzysowych w kierunku ustanowienia, wsparcia i zwiększenia wysiłków w zakresie zdrowia psychicznego i wsparcia psychospołecznego (MHPSS) w krajach. Szkolenie koncentr...

Цей онлайн орієнтаційний курс спрямований на посилення компетенцій виконавців у галузі охорони здоров’я, які працюють в умовах надзвичайних ситуацій, а також на створення, підтримку та розширення охорони психічного здоров’я та психосоціальної підтримки (ПЗПСП) у країнах. Курс зосереджує увагу на том...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is gravely concerned about the ongoing violence and insecurity in northern Mozambique. Conflict and displacement, compounded by extreme weather events has led to surging protection needs – physical, material, and legal – for hundreds of thousands of affected refugees, i...

Dressed in an embroidered African print shirt tailored especially for the occasion, Firmin, 36, walked with his family across the wet tarmac of Gbadolite city airport towards a waiting United Nations Humanitarian Air Services (UNHAS) plane on a one-way trip home.

QUITO, Ecuador – Hoy se lanzó la campaña #MeTuveQueIr, una iniciativa de ACNUR, la Agencia de la ONU para los Refugiados, que busca dar a conocer las historias de personas venezolanas que tuvieron que irse de su país. La campaña resalta la diversidad de causas por las cuales han salido, que incluyen...

The release of the Refugee response Plan

After years of fighting destroyed much of eastern Syria’s largest city and displaced hundreds of thousands of residents, UNHCR is helping families get back on their feet. Standing beside their parched fields on the once fertile banks of the Euphrates River outside Deir-ez-Zor, eastern Syria’s lar...

The verification of refugees and others of concern in Meheba refugee settlement has been running for over a month now. The exercise will be conducted country-wide in other refugee locations.

Two women in fluorescent-coloured anoraks stand out in the crowd of refugees crossing the border from Ukraine to Slovakia. Antonina Kunchenko, 62, and Natasha Titova, 59, are sisters who have fled fighting in eastern Ukraine. They arrive on a spring morning in Slovakia without a clue what to do next...