Actor, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and mother of four Cate Blanchett is the final guest of this season’s award-winning podcast series Awake at Night, hosted by the UN Refugee Agency. A Goodwill ...

In line with UNHCR’s roadmap document, formal consultations on the draft text of the Global Compact on Refugees commenced in 2018. The compact consists of two parts: the comprehensive refugee response ...

UNHCR Representative in Türkiye Philippe Leclerc: The situation is tragic, and we are witnessing it every day on the ground in the 10 provinces which are affected by the earthquakes. As an optimistic ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is gravely concerned about reports of the forced return of a Zimbabwean asylum-seeker by Zambia to his country of origin. A senior Zimbabwean politician expressed the ...

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For his entire life, Valentin Rakip has felt like a foreigner in his own country. But after a 12-year legal struggle, all that is about to change – and he may even be on the path to achieving his ...

Concluding a three-day visit to Afghanistan today, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, appealed for urgent and sustained support for Afghans inside the country and for refugees who have ...

Palestinian-Syrian refugee Lujain* knows what it is to feel powerless, having been forced from home four years ago. But she has seized opportunities and is now working to empower others through ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, continues to register new refugee arrivals at the Sudanese-Ethiopian border. Some 800 people crossed from Ethiopia’s Tigray region into eastern Sudan in just the first ...

One night in February, the inhabitants of a tiny indigenous hamlet in one of the most remote regions of Brazil were awoken by unusual noises: human voices and footsteps that broke through the ...

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today commended the Royal Thai Government’s adoption of a resolution that will grant long-staying refugees from Myanmar the right to work in Thailand.