Thank you Mr. President, This morning, we heard from three young people, including Monicah – a bright woman, a refugee. I don’t have much to add to her wise and beautiful words but let me reflect from ...

At the dusty Dadaab airstrip in Garissa County, north eastern Kenya, a mix of emotions fills the air as fourteen young refugees stand together, clutching their boarding passes. Some hug their families ...

GENEVA – Ahead of the Summit of the Future, the Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights (PIERR), a group of UN and regional human rights experts issued the following statement: “When world ...

UNHCR works to ensure people forced to flee can access water, sanitation facilities and hygiene services (WASH). Learn more about our work on WASH.

According to the UN’s 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, a stateless person is someone “who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law”.

Catastrophic flooding is massively impacting southwestern Poland, after intense and heavy rainfall brought by Storm Boris in the past few days. The number of affected communities is high, with a state ...

Concerned by the arbitrary detention of asylum-seekers by some States, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for urgent reforms to halt this detrimental practice. Releasing its latest advocacy ...

GENEVA – Heavy rains have ravaged 30 of Nigeria's 36 states. According to the government, over a million people have been affected, 269 lives tragically lost, and more than 640,000 have been displaced ...

GENEVA – Heavy rains have ravaged 30 of Nigeria's 36 states. According to the government, over a million people have been affected, 269 lives tragically lost, and more than 640,000 have been displaced ...