DAMASCUS – One month after hostilities intensified in the region and in Lebanon, Syria has seen a sharp rise in people ...

Nearly a month into a rapidly escalating conflict, Lebanon is facing a deepening humanitarian crisis. Since 2 March, ...

GOMA – More than 33,000 Congolese refugees have spontaneously returned from Burundi to eastern Democratic Republic of the ...

Learn about UNHCR’s emergency response in the Middle East, including Iran, Lebanon and other countries involved in ...

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Supermodel Alek Wek began supporting UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in 2011, was appointed UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in 2013, and became an alumnus in 2023, following 10 years of demonstrated ...

Please help refugees in need.

As hundreds of thousands of Lebanese flee continued Israeli strikes and evacuation warnings, collective shelters are rapidly ...

Alors que des centaines de milliers de Libanais fuient les frappes israéliennes incessantes et les avis d'évacuation, les ...

UNHCR provides these comments in response to the UK Government’s policy paper ‘Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy’ published in November 2025.

GENEVA – Two years since the start of the war in Sudan, the news remains exceedingly grim. The world's most damaging displacement crisis is now happening amid the worst humanitarian funding situation ...