5 Ways To Help Refugees and Displaced People Fleeing Ukraine
Are you looking for ways to help with the emergency response in Ukraine, but not sure what you can do? We are seeing a mounting refugee and humanitarian crisis as hundreds of thousands of people flee Ukraine and are in urgent need of shelter and support. Here are five...
People across Poland show solidarity with refugees from Ukraine
From overflowing donation centres near the border to offers of transport and accommodation around the country, Poles offer a warm welcome to people forced to flee. By Chris Melzer in Dorohusk, Poland At a recently opened reception centre in Dorohusk, exhausted-looking...
UNHCR mobilizing to aid forcibly displaced in Ukraine and neighbouring countries
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Around 660,000 refugees have now fled Ukraine to neighbouring countries in the past...
UN seeks US$1.7 billion as humanitarian needs soar in Ukraine and neighbouring countries
The United Nations and humanitarian partners today launched coordinated emergency appeals for a combined US$1.7 billion to urgently deliver humanitarian support to people in Ukraine and refugees in neighbouring countries. The escalation of conflict has triggered an...
High Commissioner’s Statement to the United Nations Security Council on Ukraine
By Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Mr President, Greetings from Geneva. Today and in recent days, you have heard that the United Nations humanitarian organizations, together with their NGO partners, have remained in Ukraine. Let me start...
New book explores past, present and future of protecting people forced to flee
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announces the publication of People Forced to Flee: History, Change and Challenge. People Forced to Flee draws on the lessons of history to probe how we can improve responses to forced displacement. Tracing the roots of asylum from early...
A mother from Kyiv finds safety in Poland after days on the road
After a gruelling three-day car journey, Olga and her children are among hundreds of thousands who have fled Ukraine to find safety in neighbouring countries in recent days By Chris Melzer at the Zosin border crossing, Poland At the steel bridge over the river Bug...
Statement on the situation in Ukraine attributed to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi
We are gravely concerned about the fast-deteriorating situation and ongoing military action in Ukraine. The humanitarian consequences on civilian populations will be devastating. There are no winners in war, but countless lives will be torn apart. We have already seen...