KAMPALA – Uganda, home to the largest number of refugees in Africa, remains an example of how the inclusion of refugees into public services improves their lives and those of the communities hosting ...

UNHCR’s ‘Trust the Toucan’ initiative uses social media to share testimonies from refugees and migrants who have survived the crossing with others considering the journey.

It just helped my soul heal; it made me feel at home even though I’m not necessarily at home… It gave me a place to belong,” said Muntadher, an 18-year-old resettled refugee from Iraq. He was ...

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi wraps up Executive Committee meeting in Geneva with appeal for new approaches and funding to ensure sustainable support to refugees. In his closing ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

A new men’s football Clásico is coming up very soon on 26 October, and as has become tradition of late with partner Spotify, it will also involve a change to the logo on the Barça jersey, once again ...

As conflict in the Middle East and beyond pushes the number of forcibly displaced people globally to 123 million, UN High Commissioner for Refugees urges States to work together for peace and joint ...

GENEVA – More than 100 States, civil society organizations, statelessness-led entities, academics and others have united to form a new Global Alliance to End Statelessness, committing to address the ...

When asked how a farmer’s daughter who became a Catholic nun ended up as one of Brazil’s most influential refugee advocates, Sister Rosita Milesi, 79, offers a simple answer: determination. “I have ...

Born and raised in Dori, in the far northeast of Burkina Faso, Maimouna Ba was the youngest of 12 children living in the country’s vast, remote and arid Sahel region, a six-hour drive from the capital ...

You are invited to apply for the DAFI scholarship Programme funded by the German Government and administered by UNHCR with the goal of helping refugee students to access education. The scholarship ...

In Afghanistan, increasing restrictions on women and girls, a worsening economy, and decades of conflict have contributed to a mental health crisis that is particularly impacting women.