BRUSSELS – As the world continues to combat COVID-19, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling on the German Presidency of the European Union (EU) to keep refugee protection high...

Nezamudden Linn, a 44-year-old Rohingya refugee who arrived in India from Myanmar in 2013 with his wife and three children, used to survive by doing translation work for a non-profit...

Asylum-seekers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo wait for health screening near the border in Zombo, Uganda.  © UNHCR/Rocco Nuri UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the decision by the...

From COVID-19 to climate disruption, from racial injustice to rising inequalities, we are a world in turmoil. At the same time, we are an international community with an enduring vision...

Current Acute Food Insecurity Situation June-Sept 2020 9.6 million people in Sudan are estimated to be in high acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 and above) between June and September...

A group of newly arrived refugees sit exhausted in Zombo, a Ugandan village close to the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNHCR/Rocco Nuri UNHCR, the UN...

Geneva/Panama, 1 July 2020 – The continued rapid spread of COVID-19 in the Americas and its aggravating influence on disasters and other health emergencies in the region is “extremely concerning”,...

Essential sexual and reproductive health services must be maintained The COVID-19 pandemic is having potentially catastrophic secondary impacts on the health of women and girls around the world. Decisions made at every...

By Peyvand Khorsandi New numbers released by the World Food Programme this week “confirm our fears and paint and even bleaker picture as the coronavirus pandemic takes its toll”, says...

The humanitarian situation in Yemen could be kept stable with the necessary funding to humanitarian organizations, which would also help with the country’s political process amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the...