News
Workshop teaches Tuareg artisans new skills in exile
A hands-on workshop in Burkina Faso is helping Malian refugees to develop new products and the business skills to tap international markets.
Syrian refugee carries Olympic torch through Brasilia
Twelve-year-old Syrian schoolgirl Hanan bore the Olympic flame on the first stage of its relay across Brazil to the Olympic Games opening ceremony in Rio on August 5.
Displaced villagers return home in Myanmar's Rakhine state
Slovakia receives 37 Somalis from camps in Eritrea
UNHCR has helped resettle a total of 281 Somali refugees so far this year
Horrified shipwreck survivors watched as hundreds drowned
Refugees describe desperate efforts to rescue family members after overcrowded boat overturned in the Mediterranean
Cate Blanchett appointed UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
The actor joins the UN Refugee Agency at a time of unprecedented crisis as nearly 60 million people are displaced worldwide.
Despite booby traps, Iraqis risk all on return to Ramadi
Iraq's third-largest city has not been declared cleared by the government and dozens of returnees have been killed by IEDs.
Sahrawi women to get behind the wheel at new driving school
In a push to empower young women, Sahrawi sisters plan to open an all-female driving school later this year in remote Dakhla camp, Algeria.
Greek couple offers a welcome haven to Syrian family
Syrian mother and toddlers were in desperate need of help after hazardous journey through Turkey and across Aegean.