Young Togolese refugee youth leader advocates for quality education in Ghana
Young Togolese refugee youth leader advocates for quality education in Ghana
![Ghana. Louange Koffi, a refugee nurse at a clinic she volunteers in Accra](/uk/sites/uk/files/RF1321995_24.jpg)
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.
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at the end of 2022 as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order.
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A birds-eye view of Hatay, Türkiye.
— UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (@Refugees) March 2, 2023
Our hearts go out to the people who have lost their homes and neighbourhoods in the wake of the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. The impact on lives in the region and the needs of affected people continue to grow. pic.twitter.com/wiZZnXETit
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![Halyna walks in the yard of her house that was repaired by UNHCR after it was destroyed as a result of subsequent hostilities. Halyna, 97, has lived in Kukhari village, Kyiv oblast, all her life. Her brothers and husband are buried here. She was forced to flee because of the full-scale war. After the Russian armed forces withdrew in April 2022, she returned home with her daughter, Nadiia, and Nadiia’s husband, Oleksandr, to find the house, with its pretty carved shutters, damaged. The windows and doors were shattered by artillery fire and bullets, and many of their personal belongings were either destroyed or stolen. During the spring of 2023, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, helped the family repair their house. Windows were replaced and the roof was fixed, making the house habitable again and enabling Halyna to restore comfort in her home. Full story also published here: https://www.unhcr.org/ua/en/64307-restoring-kyiv-oblast-together.html Ukraine. UNHCR helps repair homes of war-affected people](/uk/sites/uk/files/RF1330247_22.jpg)
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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.
![Afghanistan. Winterization in Bamyan province A woman stands in a snowy field holding a young child.](/uk/sites/uk/files/RF1271672_96.jpg)
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
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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.