The Latest Breaking News from UNHCR

The UK supreme court has unanimously ruled that the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful.

Five justices at the UK’s highest court ruled the plans to deport asylum seekers to the east African nation are unlawful.

The United Nations will cut the number of refugee families receiving cash assistance in Lebanon by nearly a third next year

Authorities go ‘door to door’ to round up and return thousands – many who fled from the Taliban – on first day of nationwide crackdown

Israeli airstrikes have destroyed apartment blocks and killed and injured hundreds of people at refugee camps in northern Gaza in the midst of its unrelenting assault on Gazans in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

‘This will be my last communication to you,’ top official says in letter addressed to UN’s High Commissioner in Geneva

Olaiputtu, a restaurant run by Sri Lankan refugee women in Thoothukudi, has completed 1 year. With help from UNHCR, Lok Sabha MP Kanimozhi, Social Welfare Minister P. Geetha Jeevan, Thoothukudi Mayor N. P. Jagan and the Collector, the women have been able to make the restaurant self-reliant. The Thoothukudi Corporation…

As wars rage from Ukraine to Gaza, the number of displaced people is at a record high, the UN estimates.

The Hindu explains the writ petition in the Supreme Court alleging that India’s arrest and detention of the Rohingya refugees is illegal and unconstitutional.