Four United Nations agencies today called for urgent international attention on the crisis in Sudan, to address the immense ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is appalled and deeply saddened by the avoidable and tragic loss of life at sea of some 80 people, among them refugees, in several incidents off North Africa in recent ...

The smuggling of migrants, as defined in Article 3(a) of the Smuggling of Migrants Protocol, involves the facilitation of a person’s illegal entry into a State, for a financial or other material ...

The UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award honours individuals, groups and organizations who go above and beyond the call of duty to protect refugees, displaced and stateless people. Established in 1954, the ...

Filippo Grandi is the 11th United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He was first elected by the UN General Assembly on 1 January 2016 for a five-year term. The General Assembly has since twice ...

The international legal definition of a stateless person is “a person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law”. In simple terms, this means that a stateless ...

Please help refugees in need.

Please help refugees in need.

Please help refugees in need.

Held every four years, the Global Refugee Forum is the world’s largest international gathering on refugees. It brings together UN Member States, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, ...

Please help refugees in need.

Humanitarian pathways refer to programmes designed to offer a pathway for admission to individuals in need of international protection through their identification and transfer from the country of ...