After surviving a , 70-year-old Nadiia found safety, shelter, and healing thanks to UNHCR’s rapid response and .
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Unprecedented cuts in global humanitarian funding are having severe impacts on Sudanese refugees in Chad, with clinics, schools and programmes to protect women and children from violence and exploitation forced to shut down. Reproductive health services have suffered significantly, with maternity wards closing, forcing women to give birth at home without medical care, leading to increased deaths. Over 8,500 displaced children may lose access to secondary education this year due to funding cuts, with the potential for over 155,000 refugee children to be left without education by 2026. Chad hosts 1.3 million displaced people, including over 760,000 Sudanese refugees fleeing the ongoing conflict. Families continue to arrive daily, adding pressure to an already impoverished nation facing extreme weather and instability.
swiftly provides lifesaving aid to displaced people worldwide, mobilizing staff and supplies for 1 million individuals within 72 hours.
The lack of available funds and deep uncertainty over the level of donor contributions this year has forced the UN Refugee agency (UNHCR) to suspend all medical treatment for refugees in Egypt except emergency life-saving procedures. The suspensions include cancer surgery, chemotherapy, heart surgery and medication for chronic diseases. Among the worst affected will be the over 1.5 million Sudanese in Egypt, escaping what is now the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. At present, UNHCR is prioritizing critical life-saving activities and helping the most vulnerable groups, including unaccompanied children and survivors of sexual violence and torture. Yet without an urgent increase in funding, even these programmes are under threat.
Sana Khaled’s family, displaced for six years, returns home amid challenges faced by over 7.4 million displaced Syrians, highlighting the .
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, nearly 11 million Ukrainians have been forced to flee their homes and are now either displaced within their own country or living as refugees abroad. Of those displaced within Ukraine, more than half are women and a quarter are children. Despite all the death and destruction, found that 61 per cent of Ukrainian refugees and 73 per cent of displaced people want to return home one day. Since the start of the war, has delivered over 410,000 emergency shelter kits and materials in the immediate aftermath of attacks, provided psychosocial support to around 300,000 affected people, and repaired more than 37,000 war-damaged homes. In 2025, the to fund the ongoing humanitarian and refugee responses.
After 13 years in Jordan, 80-year-old Hassan Mohammad Alhassan, a Syrian refugee, boarded a bus in Amman, filled with hope for his long-awaited return to Syria, despite the challenges ahead.
is deeply rooted in her experience of fleeing Afghanistan at the age of four. Despite initial challenges, she and her family slowly adapted in Kyrgyzstan, with education and language classes from UNHCR helping them integrate.
Post-election unrest since October has forced thousands of Mozambicans and refugees to flee their homes. Additional displacement and misery have come in the wake of and Cyclone Dikeledi, which have left trails of destruction across the north of the country since December. Repeated climate shocks like these have added to the suffering of vulnerable populations, including people already displaced by the ongoing armed conflict in northern Cabo Delgado Province. Â鶹´«Ã½ High Commissioner for Refugees () describes this triple crisis based on climate change, conflict and political unrest.
As cold winter weather arrives, the , is working to protect the forcibly displaced with shelter, clothes, fuel and food. At this time of the year, your donations can make all the difference.
Even by the standards of recent years, 2024 was a year of turmoil in which new conflicts erupted, existing crises seethed, and climate-fueled disasters multiplied. As a result, the number of people forced to flee their homes by conflict and persecution reached nearly by the end of June. That number has undoubtedly risen further with the escalation of conflict in the Middle East and the hundreds of thousands who continue to flee violence in Sudan, Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and elsewhere. While new displacement is on the rise, millions of people are trapped in situations of prolonged exile – unable to safely return home but lacking the possibility to rebuild their lives in the places they have fled to.
Adolat Shabozova's journey from statelessness to obtaining Tajikistan citizenship in 2022 ended decades of uncertainty, bringing new opportunities for her and her children's future.
Aminata Soucko, a survivor of Female Genital Mutilation and abuse, founded Red Aminata to empower and support survivors.
Odette and her family, displaced by violence in Masisi territory, find resilience and survival through small businesses at the Lushagala Extension displacement site in North Kivu, DRC.
As Abdoulaye collapsed under a desert tree, his priorities shifted when he encountered neighbors fleeing from militia attacks. They had found two small children whose mother was killed, leaving them abandoned. Abdoulaye, determined not to leave the terrified children behind, welcomed them and continued his escape with his wife, Hawaye. After the conflict in Sudan escalated in April 2023, Abdoulaye and Hawaye sent three children to safety in Chad. Upon arriving at Arkoum refugee camp, in eastern Chad, they found their children, who embraced their new siblings. Now, Abdoulaye and Hawaye participate in a foster family program by the Jesuit Refugee Service, supported by the UN Refugee Agency (), which includes eight other refugee families in Arkoum and 55 in the Hadjer Hadid region.