On Oscars night, Hollywood stars show solidarity #WithRefugees
By UNHCR Staff With themes of displacement and loss featuring in many of the nominated films, celebrities at the ceremony and online shone a light on refugee crises in Ukraine and beyond. On Sunday night, as the eyes of the world turned to Los Angeles and the 2022...
UN High Commissioner for Refugees calls for immediate end to Ukraine war, which has uprooted over 10 million people
Lviv, Ukraine – Visiting Ukraine for the first time since the Russian military offensive, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi appealed today in the strongest terms for an end to the war, while calling on the international community to provide sustained...
Thousands flee into Uganda following clashes in DR Congo
This is a summary of what was said by Joel Boutroue, UNHCR’s Representative to Uganda, to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, alongside the Government of Uganda and...
Cash offers a lifeline to refugees from Ukraine arriving in Poland
By Kristy Siegfried in Warsaw, Poland Cash assistance is allowing refugees from Ukraine to make their own decisions about what they need most after arriving in Poland and other countries in the region. Eleven days after the war in Ukraine started, a bomb fell on the...
South Sudanese battle record floods amid rapidly changing climate
By Gift Friday Noah in Old Fangak, South Sudan Help is urgently needed ahead of the rainy season for the most vulnerable among 835,000 people hit by flooding in the world’s youngest nation. At first light, 70-year-old Cholul Jock slips into murky, chest-deep water...
UNHCR warns of dire impact from floods in South Sudan as new wet season looms
This is a summary of what was said by Andrew Harper, Special Advisor on Climate Action to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee...
UNHCR and partners call for sustained funding and support for Rohingya refugees
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. As the Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh is well advanced in its fifth year, UNHCR, the...
Refugees and migrants brave jungle wilderness in search of safety
The dense jungle of the Darien Gap is increasingly becoming a site of transit for Venezuelans, Haitians and other people forced to flee. By Sibylla Brodzinsky in Metetí, Panama The sores on Mariana’s* legs from the rubber boots she wore on the gruelling trek through...