GENEVA – Following major cuts to humanitarian budgets, up to 11.6 million refugees and others forced to flee risk losing access this year to direct humanitarian assistance from UNHCR, the UN Refugee ...

DAMASCUS - The fall of the Assad regime has opened an extraordinary window of hope for peace and stability in Syria. A year on, displaced Syrians are returning to their homes – over 3 million to date ...

A young Rohingya refugee from Myanmar has her iris scanned as part of a registration exercise at Kutupalong refugee settlement in Bangladesh. Credit: UNHCR/ Will Swanson Around 300 to 400 Rohingya ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warned on Friday that humanitarian needs in Afghanistan are escalating rapidly as over 1.4 million people, mostly returnees from Iran and ...