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Freezing Emergency Funds

With funding cuts to humanitarian agencies, including UNHCR, refugee families risk losing critical support for food, shelter, and medical care. Your donation can save lives.

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Crisis in Syria

Families returning home find their homes destroyed and a country scarred by nearly 14 years of war and economic crisis.

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Clashes in Sudan

People are fleeing armed clashes in Sudan. UNHCR is on the ground to meet newly arrived refugees and provide lifesaving assistance.

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UNHCR: As funding cuts bite, some 11m people are losing aid

UNHCR: As funding cuts bite, some 11m people are losing aid

Following major cuts to humanitarian budgets, up to 11.6 million refugees and others forced to flee risk losing access this year to direct humanitarian assistance from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, according to a report published today.

A badge of hope: One former refugee’s mission to change lives and reimagine policing

A badge of hope: One former refugee’s mission to change lives and reimagine policing

When Mustafa Popalzai arrived in Canada as a 14-year-old refugee from Afghanistan, he had little more than hope. Today, the Toronto police Detective Constable is a driving force behind a grassroots initiative to change lives for thousands of newcomers, but also help heal the mistrust many carry from painful encounters with police in their homelands.

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