Good afternoon Excellencies, distinguished delegates, and colleagues. Thank you for joining me today. When we met last in June, I provided a detailed update on the financial situation, the ...

Barham Salih is the 12th United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He was elected by the UN General Assembly on 18 December 2025, for a term of five years, and assumed office on 1 January 2026.

UNHCR provides these comments in response to the UK Government’s policy paper ‘Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy’ published in November 2025.

Since the start of 2025, an average of 600 people per day have arrived in the country, with numbers expected to reach two million by year’s end. Already Africa’s largest refugee-hosting country and ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has gained access to the Shimelba and Hitsats refugee camps in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region for the first time since November 2020, amid ongoing security concerns.

GENEVA – Between 600,000 and 1 million Iranian households are now temporarily displaced inside Iran as a result of the ongoing conflict, according to preliminary assessments, representing up to 3.2 ...

This report presents the findings of UNHCR’s audit of asylum interviews in the UK, based on interview observations, file audits and discussions with Home Office staff undertaken in late 2024 and early ...

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The NARE (Needs Assessment for Refugee Emergencies) Analytical Framework enables analysis that can provide a holistic picture of the situation of refugees in emergency contexts, and inform ...

GENEVA – Two years since the start of the war in Sudan, the news remains exceedingly grim. The world's most damaging displacement crisis is now happening amid the worst humanitarian funding situation ...

Hate speech does not have a universally agreed upon definition under international law, meaning that UNHCR cannot rely on an internationally accepted definition. Rather, hate speech is an umbrella ...

GENEVA – The number of people displaced by war, violence and persecution worldwide is untenably high, particularly as humanitarian funding evaporates, with the only bright spot being a pickup in ...