Ottawa has recently passed a law to restrict eligibility for asylum and changed rules to limit health-care coverage for asylum seekers.

Schools have been closed, and the camps have been filling up with huge piles of stinking garbage

By organizing a 270-kilometre journey from Montreal to Quebec City, Safa Hammoud hopes to raise $100,000 for UNHCR projects in Syria

Le nombre de déplacés de force par les crises atteint «des sommets intenables», écrit l’ONU dans un nouveau rapport.

A new facility designed to house and support refugees and asylum seekers in Toronto is set to open next month with a focus on addressing mental health issues.

Zamzam. Dans la tradition musulmane, ce mot évoque l’intervention de Dieu dans un moment de grand désespoir. Une source d’eau qui a jailli du désert au moment où Hajar, la femme d’Abraham, pensait mou...

UNHCR and its partners are being forced to close or scale back health, education and other crucial programmes for refugees in Chad due to severe funding shortages.

This is a daily update on the new arrivals from Easter DRC to Burundi for the ongoing Eastern DRC Situation

Anchor House — at an undisclosed location — is believed to be the first emergency housing in Canada dedicated to unaccompanied refugee youth.

With no real pressure against it, M23 continues to expand southward, now controlling both North Kivu and South Kivu provinces, while Uganda boosts its military presence in Ituri province to the north

Three years on, the full-scale war on Ukraine has taken thousands of lives, caused untold destruction, torn families apart, inflicted significant psychological trauma and devastated the country’s econ...

Between 10,000 and 15,000 people have crossed into Burundi over the last few days, fleeing escalating tension and violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Most of those arriving are Con...

Nearly two years of conflict have fueled a catastrophic protection crisis and displaced a staggering 12 million people in Sudan and across borders.

Actor to head scheme to award grants of up to €100,000 to five directors with experience of displacement

Having just arrived in the Montréal borough of Anjou, Adedeji “Ade” Sunday Akintayo took a long, cold journey across the city to reach an unfamiliar place. But on that October day in 2017, he found a ...

New wars, unresolved conflicts and a spike in climate-related disasters resulted in appalling levels of death, destruction and displacement last year, forcing UNHCR’s global operations to respond to i...

UNHCR is gravely concerned about the safety and security of civilians and internally displaced people (IDPs) in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as conflict further intensifies acro...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by the worsening violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has already displaced 237,000 people this year.

Years before the Gaza war, Israel transformed its intelligence unit into an AI testing ground. Critics charge overhaul has fueled the death count in Gaza.

Emotional scenes unfold at Toronto’s Pearson airport as the women embrace their Canadian family members after some experienced long, terrifying ordeals to enter the country

Tropical Cyclone Chido struck northern Mozambique over the weekend, bringing torrential rains and powerful winds that devastated communities in Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces. The storm destroyed ...

Funding women-led organizations and survivor services is critical amid surging gender-based violence in Sudan.

While recent developments bring hope and a chance for peace and stability, they also underscore the immense challenges facing displaced Syrians inside the country and refugees abroad. The situation in...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by the recent surge of people arriving in South Sudan in need of protection and assistance, with tens of thousands of people fleeing fresh violence in border a...

As events have just unfolded over the past few days, the situation is rapidly changing and displacement dynamics continue both within the country and across borders, in a context that has produced one...

Donor governments pledged a record US$ 1.143 billion today to provide protection, life-saving assistance and solutions to millions of people uprooted by the increasing number of conflicts across the w...

Humanitarian agencies struggle to get food to the camp as malnutrition spreads, and a military assault triggers terror for its people

Situation Report in English on Syrian Arab Republic about Coordination, Food and Nutrition and more; published on 1 Dec 2024 by OCHA

After enduring terrible abuses, survivors of gender-based violence and displacement in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado Province are coming together to rebuild their shattered lives.

Across the world, more than 60 million women and girls who are forcibly displaced or stateless face high risks of gender-based violence. While gender-based violence remains one of the most pervasive h...

À feu et à sang, le pays est plongé dans un grave drame humanitaire.