Remarks by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Barham Salih, at the high-level event on the Rohingya crisis, co-hosted by ...

Excellencies, colleagues, friends, partners,This is truly an important discussion, and I thank you for the very important ...

Intensifying fighting in Yemen could drive more mass displacement, with growing numbers of people expected to flee both ...

Nearly 3,000 people have arrived in Djibouti in less than a week, making the dangerous sea crossing across the Bab el-Mandeb ...

The impacts of climate change worldwide are increasing risks of people becoming stateless and making those already without a nationality even more vulnerable. Yet solutions exist, according to the ...

The Data Innovation Fund supports UNHCR colleagues to explore, test, and scale data and AI-driven solutions that improve decision-making, operational efficiency, and outcomes for forcibly displaced ...

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Forcibly displaced people worldwide at end-2025 as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order.

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Barham Salih is the 12th United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He was elected by the UN General Assembly on 18 December 2025, for a term of five years, and assumed office on 1 January 2026.

At the end of 2021, the number of people forced to flee stood at 89.3 million. 1 Since then, the war in Ukraine has displaced millions within the country as well as to other countries, primarily in ...

UNHCR provides these comments in response to the UK Government’s policy paper ‘Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy’ published in November 2025.