UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. They work to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution, war or disaster at home.
Since 1950, UNHCR has faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, many of whom have nobody left to turn to.
They help to save lives and build better futures for millions forced from home.
The 1951 Refugee Convention turned 70 on July 28, 2021. This animation marks this anniversary and celebrates the achievements of the convention over the decades.
UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, works to protect and assist those fleeing war and persecution. Since 1950, we have helped tens of millions of people find safety and rebuild their lives.
In Mozambique, people displaced by Cyclone Idai one year ago are still struggling to rebuild their lives. More than 93,000 out of the hundreds of thousands displaced in the wake of the disaster, have been resettlement to new, safer sites. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says more assistance is needed to help them start again and for Mozambique to deal with the devastating effects of climate change.
It takes more than an hour on foot to traverse the muddy terrain that leads to Antoinette’s expansive rice farm in Chamassuia, a local village about five kilometres from Lôvua settlement in Angola’s Lunda Norte province.
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