UNHCR statement on proposed policy changes for Ukrainian refugees
UNHCR statement on proposed policy changes for Ukrainian refugees
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UNHCR helps to save lives and build better futures for the millions of people forced to flee their homes.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home.
Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital protection and assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, many of whom have nobody left to turn to.
We help to save lives and build better futures for millions forced from home.
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at the end of 2021 as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order.
Low- and middle-income countries hosted 83 per cent of the world’s refugees and Venezuelans displaced abroad.*
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![Halyna walks in the yard of her house that was repaired by UNHCR after it was destroyed as a result of subsequent hostilities. Halyna, 97, has lived in Kukhari village, Kyiv oblast, all her life. Her brothers and husband are buried here. She was forced to flee because of the full-scale war. After the Russian armed forces withdrew in April 2022, she returned home with her daughter, Nadiia, and Nadiia’s husband, Oleksandr, to find the house, with its pretty carved shutters, damaged. The windows and doors were shattered by artillery fire and bullets, and many of their personal belongings were either destroyed or stolen. During the spring of 2023, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, helped the family repair their house. Windows were replaced and the roof was fixed, making the house habitable again and enabling Halyna to restore comfort in her home. Full story also published here: https://www.unhcr.org/ua/en/64307-restoring-kyiv-oblast-together.html Ukraine. UNHCR helps repair homes of war-affected people](/ie/sites/en-ie/files/RF1330247_0.jpg)
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Help families survive this winter
This coming winter will be very challenging for millions of people forced to flee their homes around the world.
Many refugees and displaced families will have to face winter struggling to keep warm.
We need to act now, before it’s too late. Your donation can help keep refugees safe and warm this winter.
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could help to insulate a home in Ukraine.
could provide winter cash assistance to a displaced family in Afghanistan to help them buy heating fuel and winter clothes.
could provide an electrical heating appliance to a family in Ukraine to keep their home warm.
UNHCR Annual Global Trends Report
DATA AND STATISTICS
UNHCR annual Global Trends report 2021
UNHCR's Global Trends report presents key statistical trends and the latest numbers of refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless persons.
If ongoing conflicts remain unresolved and the risks of new ones erupting are not reined in, one aspect that will define the twenty-first century will be the continuously growing numbers of people forced to flee and the increasingly dire options available to them.