Climate change: How the defining crisis of our time is impacting displacement
For more than seven decades, UNHCR has been providing aid and protection to people who have been displaced from their homes due to war, conflict and persecution. Now, there is another devastating threat driving displacement and uprooting the lives of millions in the...
Indigenous Venezuelans help others navigate life far from home
By Felipe Irnaldo and Jenny Barchfield in Manaus, Brazil Indigenous Warao people from Venezuela face particularly steep hurdles building new lives in Brazil. But some of their fellow Warao are lending a helping hand. Lucetti del Pilar Ramos Blanco is a natural-born...
Displaced Syrians face bleak Ramadan as economic pain follows COVID-19
By UNHCR Staff Across much of the Middle East and North Africa, Holy Month celebrations are replaced by a struggle for survival amid economic shocks and rising food prices. Ahmad had hoped Ramadan would provide some welcome relief for his family this year....