UNHCR

UNHCR has opened a showroom here, issuing certificates: Supreme Court

October 09, 2025 6:07 am

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi declined to grant any interim protection from arrest to a Sudan national and his family, while their request for asylum in Australia is processed.

Why climate change is a national security issue

October 17, 2024 10:15 am

Insurance can mitigate vulnerabilities to unpredictable events, climate disasters. It’s important to realise that human security holds the key to national security, especially in regions where proxy wars, based upon terrorism, abound.

Afghanistan to Sudan: For refugees outside UNHCR office, endless wait for assistance

October 14, 2024 6:39 am

According to the UNHCR website, no refugee is guaranteed resettlement or cash assistance. It says it is for the organisation to decide which are the most vulnerable groups in need of such services. But this makes little difference for the protesting refugees outside.

Thousands of refugees in Indonesia have spent years awaiting resettlement. Their future is unclear

June 20, 2024 2:26 pm

Indonesia, despite having a long history of accepting refugees, is not a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention of 1951 and its 1967 Protocol, and the government does not allow refugees and asylum-seekers to work.

Aspects of US restrictions on asylum-seekers may violate international protections: UNHCR chief

June 14, 2024 12:07 am

The UNHCR report found that the cumulative number of people who have been subjected to forced displacement rose to 120 million last year — 6 million more than in the year before.

Over 70 Rohingya dead or missing after boat capsizes off Indonesia's Aceh

March 22, 2024 3:20 pm

The alert was raised on Wednesday when fishermen rescued six of the migrants. A fishing community in Aceh said they had been standing on the hull of the boat after it capsized due to high tides.

UNHCR thanks India for taking care of 142 Rohingyas intercepted in Andaman

December 25, 2023 8:03 pm

The boat left from Bangladesh around 14-15 days ago and was on its way to Indonesia.

Canada to welcome 500,000 immigrants per year by 2025

November 02, 2022 8:55 am

Most of those new arrivals will be what are known as economic immigrants, who will be expected to fill some of the roughly 1 million jobs that are currently sitting empty across various sectors of the economy.

Video of child refugee in Libya sheds light on rampant abuse

September 07, 2022 12:18 pm

The boy, Mazen Adam, a refugee in Libya from Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region, was kidnapped last week by unknown gunmen demanding ransom.

UN body says violence against Syrians in Lebanon on the rise

July 29, 2022 6:52 pm

The U.N.'s World Food Programme says Lebanon is facing a food security crisis, with about half the population food insecure.

Hard Look: Rohingya refugee camps in New Delhi & Haryana are absolutely unlivable, their lives deprived of basic dignity

June 22, 2020 6:25 pm

The Indian Express visited four Rohingya refugee camps, two in New Delhi and two more in Haryana. Somya Lakhani tells the story of lives that are stripped of basic dignity.

UN warns of looming humanitarian crisis in Greece as migrants numbers soar

March 01, 2016 8:10 pm