The world’s largest resettlement program today passed a new milestone when the 50,000th Myanmar refugee left a camp in Thailand to begin a new life in the United States. Resettlement from the nine ref...

UNHCR staff in north-west Pakistan report that displaced people are visiting their areas of origin on a ‘go and see’ basis, to harvest crops, check on livestock and generally assess the possibility of...

We are gravely concerned about spiralling violence and the worsening displacement crisis in Somalia. Ongoing fighting between government forces and the opposition Al-Shabaab and Hisb-ul-Islam, which e...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Her Royal Highness Princess Haya Bint Al-Hussein has called for a massive international aid effort to assist hundreds of thousands of people recently uprooted by fighting...

Two separate security incidents involving UNHCR took place in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours. In the most serious, which occurred at 7:00 AMlocal time on 23 June in Jowzjan Province, three Afghan st...