On his first official visit to the Holy See and Italy, the new United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Barham Salih praised His Holiness Pope Leo XIV’s vision for working towards global peace ...

In Sudan’s White Nile State, the reopening of schools is helping displaced and local communities recover from conflict and ...

"In meiner Kindheit in Aleppo habe ich davon geträumt, später einmal Architekt zu werden. Jetzt komme ich Jahre später zurück ...

Obwohl drastische Kürzungen bei der Finanzierung die humaniäre Hilfe weiter erschwert, unterstütze UNHCR im vergangenen Jahr ...

Even as severe funding cuts put further pressure on humanitarian resources, UNHCR responded last year to a range of highly ...

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Barham Salih, today underscored the need for urgent humanitarian assistance ...

NAIROBI – Bei seinem ersten offiziellen Besuch als Hochkommissar für Flüchtlinge der Vereinten Nationen rief Barham Salih heute zu stärkerer globaler Unterstützung auf, damit Flüchtlinge ihr Leben wie ...

On 18 December 2025, the UN General Assembly elected former President of Iraq Barham Salih as new High Commissioner for Refugees. He is expected to assume office on 1 January 2026.

Today, 122 refugees, mainly from Sudan, South Sudan, and Eritrea, arrived at Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome on a charter flight organized by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, ...

GENEVA – Wednesday’s devastating aerial attack on Ternopil, Western Ukraine, demonstrates clearly that no part of the country should be considered safe. The strike is reported to be one of the ...

GENEVA – Uganda is on the verge of hosting two million refugees as escalating crises in Sudan, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) drive hundreds of people to cross the border ...

Cairo, 30 June 2025 – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is urgently appealing for international solidarity as the number of registered refugees and asylum seekers in Egypt surpasses a critical milestone- ...