MADE51 brings beautiful, refugee-made products to the international market. Brought to life by UNHCR, this initiative connects refugees with social enterprise partners to design, produce and market ...

Thank you Mr. President, This morning, we heard from three young people, including Monicah – a bright woman, a refugee. I don’t have much to add to her wise and beautiful words but let me reflect from ...

GENEVA – Ahead of the Summit of the Future, the Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights (PIERR), a group of UN and regional human rights experts issued the following statement: “When world ...

Concerned by the arbitrary detention of asylum-seekers by some States, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for urgent reforms to halt this detrimental practice. Releasing its latest advocacy ...

At the dusty Dadaab airstrip in Garissa County, north eastern Kenya, a mix of emotions fills the air as fourteen young refugees stand together, clutching their boarding passes. Some hug their families ...

Catastrophic flooding is massively impacting southwestern Poland, after intense and heavy rainfall brought by Storm Boris in the past few days. The number of affected communities is high, with a state ...

According to the UN’s 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, a stateless person is someone “who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law”.

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UNHCR is on the ground in 136 countries. We employ 20,305 people who deliver life-saving aid, advocate for the fundamental human rights of people forced to flee, and help those living in limbo to ...

Who is an ‘asylum-seeker’? An asylum-seeker is someone who is seeking international protection. Their request for refugee status, or complementary protection status, has yet to be processed, or they ...