On April 10, 2021, UNHCR focused on providing financial support directly to refugees and asylum seekers, allowing them to meet their most essential needs. This approach, […]
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UNHCR – Syria Fact Sheet (March 2021)
The decade-long crisis in Syria does not show any sign of improving. Humanitarian needs and protection risks are increasing. The security situation in some areas […]
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UNHCR Update Libya (12 February 2021) [EN/AR]
As of 10 February, 1,930 refugees and migrants have been registered in 2021 as rescued/ intercepted at sea and subsequently disembarked in Libya. Since the […]
UNHCR MENA COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccinations: Update #1 (7 February 2021)
Highlights • UNHCR continues to advocate for the equitable inclusion of refugees, internally displaced and stateless populations through the COVAX Facility, a global initiative that […]
2021 UNHCR-NGO Monthly Consultations
Following-up on the model of weekly/monthly NGO Consultations on the COVID-19 response held in 2020, and in lieu of the usual UNHCR-NGO Global Consultations, the UNHCR […]
Forced displacement passes 80 million by mid-2020 as COVID-19 tests refugee protection globally
A Congolese asylum-seeker holds her six-month-old child in Zombo, Uganda, close to border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), July 2020. © UNHCR/Rocco […]
UNHCR warns 2020 risks lowest resettlement levels in recent history
Thirteen-year-old Syrian refugee Bakr works in a supermarket and delivers food to support his family in Barja, Lebanon. The family are awaiting resettlement to Norway. […]
UNHCR Ethiopia Fact Sheet, September 2020
Ethiopia is one of the largest refugee-hosting countries in Africa, sheltering 792,030 registered refugees and asylum seekers as of 30 September 2020. The overwhelming majority […]
UNHCR assisting displaced families affected by floods in the Sahel
People carry their belongings in a street flooded by the Niger River in the Kirkissoye neighbourhood in Niamey, Niger, on August 27, 2020. © AFP/Boureima […]
Floods drive over 650,000 Somalis from their homes in 2020
Somalis driven from the Lower Shabelle region by fear of airstrikes sit under a tree at a site for internally displaced people near Mogadishu, March […]