Five trailblazing women win UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Awards for their life-changing work

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, honors five trailblazing women with the 2024 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award for their role in championing the rights and dignity of people forced to flee.

Escaping airstrikes in Eastern Ukraine: an 82-year-old's journey to safety

With intensified hostilities in eastern regions of Ukraine, Nina Ryazantseva was among thousands of people who have fled or been evacuated from frontline communities in recent months.

UNHCR’s Grandi appeals for urgent humanitarian support and an end to the bloodshed in Lebanon

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, calls for greater international support to stem the humanitarian catastrophe engulfing Lebanon.

Displaced families in Lebanon yearn for peace and a return home

In Lebanon, UNHCR’s Grandi urges increased international support and an immediate ceasefire to ease the plight of some 1.2 million people displaced by deadly airstrikes.

UNHCR: As crisis deepens in Lebanon, more flee to Syria and beyond to escape bombs

Intensifying airstrikes have forced yet more people from their homes in Lebanon in search of safety.

What is happening in Lebanon?

The latest escalation of violence in Lebanon mark the most intense attacks on the country in the last two decades. More than one million people in Lebanon are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.