Afghanistan: The latest on an escalating humanitarian crisis
UNHCR will continue to step up its response in Afghanistan as the situation on the ground continues to deteriorate after a tumultuous year. Screen Shot 2022-04-26 at 10.19.50 AM Screen Shot 2022-04-26 at 10.20.03 AM The country was already facing a number of crippling...
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...
UNHCR helps Syrian student on his journey to higher learning
The UNHCR refugee scholarship program (DAFI) has sponsored more than 18,500 refugee students in over 50 countries since it began in 1992. Shadi Al Mesitef was a DAFI scholar at Zarqa University in Jordan where he studied medical laboratory. He graduated in June of...