refugees

This family of Sudanese refugees at a camp in South Sudan earlier this year. Donor generosity will help people like these in the major displacement crises.
UNHCR/B. Sokol

UN refugee agency receives pledges of $550 million towards $3.92 billion sought for next year

11 December 2012
Amidst expanding humanitarian crises in the Middle East and parts of Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa, government donors today pledged $550 million towards the work of the UN refugee agency next year.
Credit: UNHCR
UNHCR

UN refugee agency and NGO appeal to United States to do more to end statelessness

10 December 2012
The United Nations refugee agency and a global non-governmental organisation are jointly appealing to the United States Government to take further action to end the hardships facing stateless people in the North American country.
Angolan refugees and Brazilians present a play in a poor community in Rio de Janeiro.
UNHCR/V. Graziano

UN welcomes Brazil’s decision to grant residency to Angolan and Liberian refugees

9 November 2012
The United Nations today welcomed the decision by the Brazilian Government to grant permanent residency to almost 2,000 former Angolan and Liberian refugees, a majority of whom fled their countries during the 1990s due to violence.
A boat carrying asylum seekers and migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.
UNHCR/L.Boldrini

Six people confirmed dead, more missing after small boat capsizes off Mayotte – UN

9 October 2012
Six people died and 10 are still missing after a small vessel carrying 24 people capsized on Monday morning off the French territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.
High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres briefs the press.
UNHCR/Jean-Marc Ferré

With zero reserves, UN refugee agency faces ‘unprecedented’ combination of crises

5 October 2012
With its financial reserves at zero, the United Nations refugee agency is facing an “unprecedented” combination of crises, its top official warned today as he appealed to the international community to provide the necessary financial support.
Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Erika Feller.
UNHCR/S. Hopper

Stronger political will worldwide crucial to tackle growing refugee crisis, UN warns

3 October 2012
A senior United Nations official appealed today for strengthened political will to help the world’s more than 42 million refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, amid a recent rise in new humanitarian emergencies in Africa and the Middle East.
Ambassadors Jose Filipe Moraes Cabral (Portugal) and Mary Elizabeth Flores (Honduras) at accession event in New York. Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli of the UN Office of Legal Affairs looks on.
UNHCR/H. VanBrabandt

UN refugee chief hails Ecuador, Honduras and Portugal for action on statelessness convention

2 October 2012
The United Nations refugee chief today praised Ecuador, Honduras and Portugal for their “concrete steps” to address statelessness through becoming parties to conventions that deal with the issue, while also calling on other countries to follow suit.
Malian refugees in Niger.
UNHCR/H. Caux

Global crises severely straining humanitarian resources, warns UN refugee chief

1 October 2012
A combination of major new conflicts and unresolved ones around the world are increasingly straining humanitarian resources at unprecedented levels, the head of the United Nations refugee agency warned today.
Malian refugees in Mbera camp.
UNHCR Mauritania

Marking World Refugee Day, UN spotlights plight of millions forced to flee their homes

20 June 2012
The United Nations today marked World Refugee Day by focusing on the more than 42 million people worldwide who have been forcibly displaced from their homes, and raising awareness of the dilemmas facing this vulnerable group of people.
An aerial view of the Dadaab refugee complex in north-east Kenya.
Bannon/IOM/UNHCR

UN refugee agency warns of worsening global displacement over next ten years

31 May 2012
The number of displaced persons worldwide will significantly grow over the next ten years due to factors such as conflict, natural disasters and climate change, according to the flagship publication of the United Nations refugee agency, launched today, which stresses that international solidarity is needed to address the issue.