UNHCR mobile teams bring legal assistance, documentation support and protection services to Venezuelan refugees and ...

Everyone has the right to seek asylum. Around the world, UNHCR works closely with States so that refugees have access to fair, efficient, and adaptable asylum systems. In many countries, local ...

Few have heard of the Hazara, an ethnic group native to Afghanistan. For over a century, the Hazara community has suffered from targeted discrimination, persecution, and massacres because of their ...

Refugees come to Canada from many different and diverse countries seeking safety from conflict, persecution and human rights violations. One thing that unites them is the overwhelming desire to ...

From a childhood shaped by war in Liberia to building one of Vancouver’s most dynamic youth initiatives, soccer has remained a constant through every chapter of Dacious Richardson’s life. For him, ...

Having just arrived in the Montréal borough of Anjou, Adedeji “Ade” Sunday Akintayo took a long, cold journey across the city to reach an unfamiliar place. But on that October day in 2017, he found a ...

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning that rapidly escalating hostilities along Yemen’s western coast have displaced more than 100,000 people inside the country and forced thousands more ...

OTTAWA – A recent UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, study shows that an innovative Canadian pilot program offers a life-changing opportunity for refugees while helping meet critical labour needs across ...

Mandela Kuet’s childhood in Winnipeg’s North End was shaped by the sights and sounds of a community deeply intertwined with both Indigenous and newcomer cultures. It was a place where the sense of ...

When Nyota Katembo steps onto the field, everything else fades away; the noise, the pressure, the weight of her past On the pitch, she’s just a player chasing a ball. But off it, she’s become so much ...

His family had fled to Indonesia after years of displacement, joining thousands of refugees waiting for safety and a chance to rebuild their lives. But there was one devastating reality they hadn’t ...

UNHCR Canada is excited to welcome Tracey Maulfair as its new Representative in Canada. With more than two decades of experience within the organization working in multiple countries, she brings a ...