UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a lifeline for people displaced by violence, conflict and persecution—helping them survive, recover and build a better future.
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Core relief items from UNHCR can be released within 48 hours for around 600,000 refugees and people affected by conflict in simultaneous emergencies
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UNHCR provides essential services to refugees in 134 countries, in 470 locations
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million men, women and children displaced by violence, conflict and prosecution worldwide
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Jordan’s accidental plumber trains team of Syrian refugee women
After a mistranslation led her to enrol in a plumbing workshop, Safaa trained her own team of mostly Syrian refugee women to challenge stereotypes.
New refugees arrive to Iraq in a week of violence in northeast Syria
For the fourth consecutive day, UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, has been receiving hundreds refugees crossing the border into Iraq from northeast Syria.