Emergency funding to help hundreds of thousands of refugees in Uganda will run out next month unless more support comes in, a ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is in talks with Austria to secure funding for legal aid services ...

September 18, 2001 Afghan Refugee Situation Ruud Lubbers, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, spoke about people trying to flee Afghanistan following the 9/11 terro… ...

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees said those who drowned were probably trying to reach Italy, whose anti-immigrant government has sought to seal its coastline.

The Austrian Development Agency (ADA) has committed $1.8 million (about Shs6.66 billion) to the United Nations High ...

The financing crisis is the result of massive foreign aid cuts by donor nations such as Sweden, France, and Japan, which have been compounded by significant US aid cuts ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Iran has agreed to join a trilateral meeting in Kabul aimed at addressing the growing challenges faced by ...

The UN Refugee Team is “a symbol of inclusion, of equality, of achievement,” Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said. “It is a moment in which people who have often lost ...

XIV. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE 1388. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the United ...

Civilian Casualties in Afghan War Are Unabated in 2016 The United Nations mission documented 600 civilian deaths and 1,343 wounded in the first three months, expected to be a bloody year.

You all know (I hope!) what I do — I have a rather grand and a bit old-fashioned title, “high commissioner for refugees”, sorry about that! It means essentially that I lead UNHCR, the main refugee ...