UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has issued its latest legal guidance today on the way States should treat asylum-seekers who arrive at their borders in an irregular way.

UNHCR: Verschärfte russische Angriffe vertreiben mehr Ukrainer

Ukrainians face minus 20C temperatures this winter as Russian strikes knock out power and heating, the UN refugee agency UNHCR warned on October 30, launching its winter appeal.

Kriget i Ukraina slår liv i spillror. Ryska attacker tvingar barn och familjer att fly för att överleva. UNHCR delar ut filtar och kläder. Du behövs.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is closely monitoring the situation on the Kenya–Ethiopia border in Moyale, where ongoing clashes on the Ethiopian side have forced thousands of people to cross into Keny...

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More than 280,000 people have now been displaced by fighting in Yemen and many vulnerable people are unable to access lifesaving relief because it is too dangerous to do so, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday.

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed at the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis facing more than 65,000 refugees and asylum-seekers in Yemen, as escalating insecurity, economic collapse...

Ukrainians face minus 20C temperatures this winter as Russian strikes knock out power and heating, the UN refugee agency UNHCR warned on October 30, launching its winter appeal. UNHCR is seeking at least $50mn, $3mn more than it raised last year, to help an estimated 9mn people in Ukraine, Syria, Lebanon and Afghanistan through the 2026-27 winter, according to its appeal. In Ukraine it pointed to "accelerating Russian Federation strikes on civilians and humanitarians" and worsening power cuts. "Resources are scarce and costs are spiralling just as winter looms in the northern hemisphere," said Dominique Hyde, UNHCR's director of external relations. "Millions in these fragile, war-affected countries risk facing the elements without enough protection from the cold. We need to shield them immediately." Ukraine is entering its fifth winter of full-scale war with Russia once again trying to freeze Ukraine into submission, and the aid budget to cushion it is shrinking. Russia has damaged more than 800 pieces of energy equipment in 350 attacks since September, Kyiv says, while UNHCR is turning to public donors after government funding fell: it sought $8.5bn for its 2026 programmes and had $3bn available as of October 9, AFP reported. UNHCR's own Ukraine winter plan, published in July, budgets $104mn. Most of it, $80mn, is cash for 310,550 people at UAH19,400 ($428) per household, with $23mn to insulate homes for 78,000 people and $1mn for protection support for 47,100. Last winter Russian forces hit electricity generation, transmission and distribution facilities at least 423 times between October 2025 and March 2026, according to the UN's human rights monitoring mission, as temperatures fell below minus 20C in Ukraine's coldest winter since 2010. Around 75% of people who left Ukraine in December, January and February cited a lack of electricity, water or heating, UNHCR's border monitoring found. The UNHCR money is part of a wider inter-agency Winter Response Plan launched on July 22, which seeks $358.4mn to help 2.1mn people across Ukraine between October and March, up from $277.7mn for 1.7mn people last winter. The Ukraine Humanitarian Fund has also allocated $50mn to fill urgent funding gaps. Some 3.7mn Ukrainians are internally displaced and more than 5.9mn remain refugees abroad, mostly in Europe, according to UNHCR, which estimates that nearly 3mn homes had been damaged or destroyed by the end of 2025. Cities are preparing for the worst: Kyiv has drawn up evacuation lists of residents who could not survive in an unheated flat. Elsewhere close to 4mn Afghans returned from Pakistan and Iran between January 2025 and July 2026, many with little to live on, while in Lebanon almost 300,000 people will need winter help and UNHCR can reach only half of them for lack of funds.

Countries: Romania, Ukraine Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Please refer to the attached file. Highlight At the end of October, UNHCR Romania issued a call for applications for its first Humanitarian Datathon, “Counted In: Advancing Inclusive National Statistics for Forcibly Displaced Persons”, in collaboration with the ReMAP Network, UNHCR partner the Centre for Comparative Migration Studies (CSCM), the University of Bucharest and the West University of Timișoara. A datathon is a collaborative research sprint that brings together students, researchers, data scientists and practitioners to analyse data and generate innovative insights around a specific theme. This datathon will focus on statistical inclusion, with participants contributing to the development and testing of a tool to measure the inclusion of forcibly displaced persons in national statistics. The initiative builds on UNHCR’s Statistical Inclusion Navigator (IncNAV), with Romania serving as a case study. The event will take place in two phases: an online research phase, featuring mentoring sessions and panel discussions, from 23 November to 9 December, followed by a two-day in-person event in Timișoara on 10–11 December, where participants will present their findings to a jury.

UNHCR Sözcüsü Matthew Saltmarsh, Yemen’de on binlerce mülteci ve sığınmacının hayatta kalma mücadelesi verdiğini açıkladı.

UN independent human rights experts called on Thursday for justice and accountability for young women and girls who were trafficked systematically as part of allegations contained in the so-called Eps...