More than 35,000 people were forced to flee their homes every day in 2018 - nearly one every two seconds - taking the world's displaced population to a record 71 million. A total of 26 million people ...

More than 122 million people have been forced to flee their homes worldwide. 73% of refugees live in low- and middle-income countries. The IRC delivers lifesaving support in more than 40 ...

At the end of 2023, 68.3 million people were internally displaced by conflicts and violence worldwide, an increase of 49% from five years ago, UN expert Paula Gaviria Betancur told the UN Human Rights ...

Two children, a decade of war in Syria: Rahaf and Mustafa symbolise the suffering inflicted by Syria's war The number of people who have been forced to flee their homes around the world has risen to a ...

The onset of the coronavirus pandemic triggered a displaced worker crisis of national proportion. Especially hard hit has been the services industry — namely, tourism, hospitality and leisure. Visitor ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is gravely concerned about the safety and security of civilians in Yemen’s Marib governorate, including more than one million people who are estimated to be displaced. As ...

As talks at this year’s UN Climate Conference – COP27 – looked set to continue in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt today, the UN Refugee Agency’s Special Advisor for Climate Action Andrew Harper called for ...

More than 60 million people are displaced from their homes as of the end of 2015, the highest number of displaced people since World War II, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for ...

An estimated 100 million people around the world are forcibly displaced, the highest number on record, according to the United Nations. The figure represents 1% of the world's population and would be ...