UNHCR-medewerkers worden getraind om onder grote druk en extreme omstandigheden te werken. We zijn actief in meer dan 130 landen. Op uitnodiging van overheden coördineren we vaak de noodhulp van andere organisaties. Zo zorgen we ervoor dat de noodhulp in crisisgebieden het meest effectief is. 

Helaas zijn mensen steeds langer van huis. En duren oorlogen steeds langer waardoor mensen niet direct kunnen terugkeren naar huis. Daarom zorgen we ook voor scholing, opleidingsmogelijkheden en werkgelegenheid.

Coronavirus

Europa

A boatload of refugees prepare to disembark from their boat that has crossed the short ribbon of sea between Turkey and Greece. ; Over one million refugees and migrants arrived in Europe by sea in 2015. An overwhelming majority were fleeing war and persecution. More than 80 percent of those who survived the crossing came from the world’s top refugee-producing countries.

Rohingya

Venezuela

Democratische Republiek Congo

Irak

Iraqi IDP’s displaced by fighting in the village of Shora, 25km South of Mosul, reach an Iraqi army checkpoint on the Northern outskirts of Qayyarah. Qayyarah was liberated from ISIS over two months ago but is still engulfed in thick black smoke from oil wells set ablaze by the retreating militants. IDP's who reach Qayyarah are taken to Ja'dah IDP camp there. ; Around 3.3 million Iraqis, ten per cent of the population of Iraq, have fled their homes since fighting in several parts of the country intensified in March 2014. With a military operation to retake the city of Mosul beginning in October 2016, new camps have been quickly built by UN agencies in Iraq to accommodate some of the anticipated 1 million people likely to be displaced. Debaga camp, completed in late 2015 for an initial 3,000 people, quickly saw its population increase tenfold. The numbers are likely to continue rising.

De Sahel

Zuid-Soedan

Refugees from South Sudan are transported from Elegu to the Numanzi Transit Centre in the Adjumani district of northern Uganda where meals and temporary accommodation are provided by UNHCR. ; More than 43,000 South Sudanese refugees crossed into Uganda between 7 July and 27 July 2016 following an outbreak of fighting in Juba between forces loyal to President Kiir and First Vice President Machar. At least 300 people were killed in the violence that erupted in the capital. The refugees came into Uganda via border crossing points at Moyo, Kuluba, Lamwo, Yumbe and Elegu and the numbers increased when government authorities opened the border into Uganda at Nimule and cleared the 200-kilometre Juba-Nimule road of checkpoints. Many refugees travelled on convoys of trucks, taking their belongings with them. Ninety per cent of the refugees are women and children. Many have arrived at the newly established Pagarinya 2 settlement in Adjumani District, northern Uganda, while others are waiting at collection points to be transferred to the settlement. UNHCR estimates that nearly one in four South Sudanese citizens are displaced within its borders or in neighbouring countries due to conflict and food shortages, and the total number of South Sudanese refugees could exceed 1 million this year.

Ethiopië

Jemen

Syrië

In Syria, two generations of Homs residents attempt to rebuild their lives among the ruins. Worldwide displacement from wars, conflict and persecution is at the highest levels ever recorded by UNHCR and accelerating fast. ; Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2014 Global displacement, from wars, conflict, and persecution, is at the highest level ever recorded, and accelerating fast. Worldwide, one in every 122 humans is now uprooted. If displacement was the population of a country, it would be the worldís 24th biggest. UNHCRís new annual Global Trends report reveals a sharp escalation in the number of people forced to flee their homes, with 59.5 million forcibly displaced at the end of 2014, compared to 51.2 million a year earlier. During 2014, an average of 42,500 people became displaced every day. The war that erupted in Syria in 2011 has propelled it into the worldís single largest driver of displacement, but instability and conflict in places like the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Burundi and Afghanistan is also contributing heavily. With huge shortages of funding and wide gaps in the global regime for protecting victims of war, people in desperate need of help are being abandoned. Now, more than ever, the world must work together to build and preserve peace.

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