internally displaced people

Ruven Menikdiwela, Director of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)’s Office in New York

UN News/Pauline Batista

World’s poorest nations hosting over a fifth of world’s refugees: UNHCR

13 June 2023

In its new flagship report published on Wednesday the UN refugee agency UNHCR reveals that the 46 least developed countries are hosting more than 20 per cent of the refugee population – even though they account for only 1.3 per cent of GDP.

That’s one of the important data points contained in Global Trends in Forced Displacement 2022, which shows a record level of displacement, for the second year running, now standing at 108.4 million, UNHCR Director in New York, Ruven Menikdiwela told us.

UN News’s Pauline Batista began by asking her to outline the key findings.

Families displaced by the earthquake are temporarily being accommodated in tents in Aziz, Syria.

News in Brief 17 February 2023

17 February 2023

News in Brief

Aid continues to roll into quake-hit Syria to prevent a second disaster
UNHCR and partners seek $605 million for one million Congolese displaced
Ukraine: WHO increases 2023 appeal to $240m as one year mark nears since Russia invasion

IOM’s Johannes Fromholt helps to unload relief items in Kurakhove in central Ukraine.

Some Ukraine towns practically erased, one year into invasion

15 February 2023

Interviews

Nearly one year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the scale of destruction in the south and east has been massive - so much so, that one senior UN humanitarian worker has told UN News some towns “don’t even exist anymore”. To help the vulnerable communities struggling to survive, the UN migration agency, IOM, has been stepping up aid and support. That includes towns like Znamyanka in central Ukraine, as IOM’s Johannes Fromholt has been telling Daniel Johnson.

The technology will improve the production of privacy-preserving data and accelerate evidence-based policy in the fight against human trafficking

IOM/Muse Mohammed

News in Brief 24 January 2023

24 January 2023

News in Brief

Victims of human trafficking more vulnerable due to wars: UNODC
Afghan mission led by UN relief chief keeps pressure on Taliban
Armed groups continue to displace refugees and civilians in Mali

Children sit outside their family tent at the Alzhouriyeh makeshift camp in east rural Homs, Syria.

More than 100 million now forcibly displaced: UNHCR report

16 June 2022

Migrants and Refugees

A staggering 100 million people have now been forced to flee their homes globally, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Thursday, highlighting worldwide food insecurity, the climate crisis, war in Ukraine and other emergencies from Africa to Afghanistan as leading causes.

Devastation caused by protracted conflict in Yemen.

UNDP Yemen

Yemen recovery possible if war stops now: UNDP report

23 November 2021

Peace and Security

War-torn Yemen is among the poorest countries in the world, but recovery is possible if the conflict ends now, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said in a report published on Tuesday.

Displaced people in Burkina Faso gather gather in a camp in Pissila town in the northeast of the country.

WFP/Marwa Awad

Violence, insecurity and climate change drive 84 million people from their homes

11 November 2021

Migrants and Refugees

As more people flee violence, insecurity and the effects of climate change, the number forcibly displaced now exceeds 84 million globally, according to new data released on Thursday by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.

Grain is loaded for distribution at a World Food Programme warehouse in Kabul in May 2021.

Amidst turmoil, displacement and plunging economy, Afghanistan’s future ‘very difficult…to see’

25 August 2021

Peace and Security

A crisis of incredible proportions is unfolding in Afghanistan as conflict, combined with drought and COVID-19, is pushing Afghans into a humanitarian catastrophe, the UN food relief agency said on Wednesday.

A displaced family from a village in Mali was relocated to a former school.

WFP/Aurélia Rusek

Protect civilians in the Sahel and Lake Chad regions, urges UN refugee agency

23 April 2020

Peace and Security

An upsurge in military action against armed groups in West Africa’s vast Sahel and Lake Chad regions has prompted the United Nations refugee agency to call on all warring parties to protect people caught up in the violence.