Good afternoon Excellencies, distinguished delegates, and colleagues. Thank you for joining me today. When we met last in June, I provided a detailed update on the financial situation, the ...

This report tells the stories of some of the world’s 7.1 million refugee children of school age under UNHCR’s mandate. In addition, it looks at the educational aspirations of refugee youth eager to ...

Barham Salih is the 12th United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He was elected by the UN General Assembly on 18 December 2025, for a term of five years, and assumed office on 1 January 2026.

At the end of 2021, the number of people forced to flee stood at 89.3 million. 1 Since then, the war in Ukraine has displaced millions within the country as well as to other countries, primarily in ...

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 – Between 600,000 and 1 million Iranian households are now temporarily displaced inside Iran as a result of the ongoing conflict, according to preliminary assessments, representing up to 3.2 ...

Some fled with no warning at all. Others had weeks or months to anxiously weigh their options – until mounting danger finally forced them to leave their homes behind. Over the past seven years, UNHCR ...

This report presents the findings of UNHCR’s audit of asylum interviews in the UK, based on interview observations, file audits and discussions with Home Office staff undertaken in late 2024 and early ...

A critical $300 million gap in the UN Refugee Agency’s already-diminished budget for 2025 could see further devastating cuts to life-saving aid for refugees, following the slashing of assistance ...

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PANAMA CITY, Panama - Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Panama, together with the international community, on the occasion of the VI Annual Meeting of the Comprehensive ...

The war in Ukraine has been the fastest growing and largest displacement crisis in Europe since World War II and has precipitated a regional refugee response of commensurate scale. Following the ...