UNHCR: 5.8 million refugee children still out of school as funding cuts threaten hard-won progress
GENEVA – Nearly 6 million refugee children were out of school worldwide in 2025, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warned today, as deepening funding cuts threaten to shut millions more out of classrooms and reverse years of progress in refugee education. UNHCR’s latest...
UNHCR concerned by returns from Malaysia to Myanmar amid ongoing conflict
GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned by Malaysia’s recent return of 1,476 people to Myanmar amid the country’s continuing conflict and dire human rights and humanitarian situation. “We are concerned by these returns at a time when people sent back to...
UNHCR sounds the alarm as 8.3 million risk losing their lifeline
GENEVA – Continued severe funding cuts are pushing refugee support and protection structures towards breaking point in the world’s main displacement situations, forcing UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to scale back core programmes, leaving millions without the support...
New global recommendations help States safeguard nationality and protect stateless people amid climate crisis
Joint press release: UNHCR and Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at the University of Melbourne GENEVA/MELBOURNE – The impacts of climate change worldwide are increasing risks of people becoming stateless and making those already without a nationality even more...
UNHCR’s Salih calls for greater investment in protection and solutions in the Central Sahel
BAMAKO/OUAGADOUGOU – Concluding a visit to Mali and Burkina Faso, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Barham Salih urged greater investment in life-saving protection and lasting solutions for forcibly displaced people and the communities hosting them across the Central...
Yemen: Escalating conflict drives new displacement and refugee arrivals in Djibouti
GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning that rapidly escalating hostilities along Yemen’s western coast have displaced more than 100,000 people inside the country and forced thousands more to seek safety across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in Djibouti. The...
Refugees in South Sudan face extreme hunger as funds run out
Joint UNHCR/World Food Programme (WFP) press release JUBA – More than 650,000 refugees and asylum seekers in South Sudan risk losing further access to lifesaving food, nutrition and other assistance due to critical funding shortfalls, leaving families who fled war and...
UNHCR’s Salih urges global solidarity as Syria reaches pivotal moment for return and recovery
DAMASCUS – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Barham Salih today called on the international community to rapidly scale up support to Syrians, saying the country stands at a critical juncture as growing numbers of refugees and internally displaced people...