UN convoy supports vulnerable, displaced people in Rukban
The United Nations with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent are carrying out the largest humanitarian convoy to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance to the people at Rukban makeshift settlement.
Refugee children want to “feel like human beings” again
In a camp where most refugees are children and many are orphans, finding happiness is easier than you think.
The Most Important Thing
If conflict tore your country apart and forced you to run for your life, what would you bring with you?
Shih Wing Ching Visits Refugees in Iran with UNHCR – UNHCR Iran Mission Media Gathering
UNHCR is honoured to have received many years of generous support and contribution from the Founder of Shih Wing Ching Foundation, Mr. Shih Wing Ching. In November 2018, UNHCR arranged a visiting tour to Iran for Mr. Shih together with his wife. On 13th December 2018,...
South Sudan: When Bullets Fly
There is no time to think when gunfire erupts. Especially when you are a 12-year-old child.
Monsoon rains batter Bangladesh Rohingya refugee settlements
Winds and first heavy rains pound fragile landscape sheltering some 700,000 refugees, triggering landslides that killed one refugee and injured others amid ongoing emergency response.
When a child becomes a parent
In the absence of parents, many refugee children barely old enough to know how to light a fire, are forced to act as father and mother to even younger, grief-stricken children.
Bangladesh: A farmer opens his farm and his heart to hundreds of Rohingya refugees
Seeing so many ordinary people in distress, farmer Akhter Hossain and his wife Nargis Begum listened to their hearts and opened their doors.
Refugee speakers steal show at historic TEDx event
Tens of thousands tune in to first ever TEDx in a refugee camp.