“Refugees” or “Migrants”? How word choices affect rights and lives
“Refugees” or “Migrants”? How word choices affect rights and lives
A Venezuelan family walks along the highway that runs parallel to the border with Chile on 3 December, 2021, in Peru's southern region of Tacna.
UNHCR helps to save lives and build better futures for the millions of people forced to flee their homes.
Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital protection and assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, many of whom have nobody left to turn to.
We help to save lives and build better futures for millions forced from home.
Key facts and figures
at the end of 2021 as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order.
Low- and middle-income countries hosted 83 per cent of the world’s refugees and Venezuelans displaced abroad.*
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Winter Emergency
As temperatures drop, millions of families forced to flee will face another cold winter far from home.
In Ukraine, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is providing cash assistance, winter supplies and helping to reinforce homes and collective shelters against the harsh weather.
In Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Afghanistan, as well as in Iran and Pakistan UNHCR is on the ground providing life-saving aid and winter supplies to refugees and displaced families. We are also providing support to families fleeing the Sudan crisis, who are facing similar challenges for the first time.
Your donation is needed more than ever now to protect vulnerable families.
This coming winter will again be very challenging for millions of people forced to flee their homes around the world.
could support three forcibly displaced families to cover their basic needs during the harsh winter months in Syria.
could provide cash assistance for two families in Afghanistan allowing them to buy food, fuel and warm supplies to meet their most urgent needs in the winter months.
Could support a family in Egypt with cash grants to help them meet their basic needs especially during the winter months.
UNHCR Annual Global Trends Report
DATA AND STATISTICS
UNHCR annual Global Trends report 2021
UNHCR's Global Trends report presents key statistical trends and the latest numbers of refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless persons.
If ongoing conflicts remain unresolved and the risks of new ones erupting are not reined in, one aspect that will define the twenty-first century will be the continuously growing numbers of people forced to flee and the increasingly dire options available to them.
