Situations

UNHCR is currently responding to the needs of people who have been forced to flee in multiple situations. Select a situation and see the latest information, plans and verified data.

Please note that additional funding needs may be set out in a supplementary appeal at any time during the year. These can be found in the relevant situation pages.

This page links to information on the major situations where UNHCR is currently responding to the needs of people who have been forced to flee.

Nisar, 40, father-of-six, a survivor of the Herat earthquake in Seyah Aab village, Zinda Jan district, who has received emergency assistance from UNHCR. © UNHCR/Faramarz Barzin

Afghanistan situation

Widowed Sudanese refugee Fatma and her children sit near community shelters at the UNHCR-supported Korsi site, near Birao, Central African Republic. The family is among more than 1,200 Sudanese refugees who have settled at the newly established site after fleeing the conflict at home. © UNHCR/Josselin Brémaud

Central African Republic situation

A boy standing on the entrace of their makeshift house while with his mother watching through a window

Colombia situation

Thousands of children, women, and men fled violent clashes occurring in Rutshuru territory in the North Kivu province of DRC, some 8 km from the Bunagana border crossing in Uganda’s Kisoro district. © UNHCR/Yonna Tukundane

Democratic Republic of the Congo situation

A group of students from Maskall Primary School in the classroom, listening to German, the school principal, lecture. This primary school hosts 187 students from 1st to 6th grade. Almost 50% of the students in this school are refugees or asylum-seekers, mainly from El Salvador. © UNHCR/Jeoffrey Guillemard

El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras situation

A group of young Yazidis at the Rwanga camp for internally displaced people in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, hosting some 2,440 displaced families. © UNHCR/Andrew McConnell

Iraq situation

Zau Mun, 62, stands next to his shelter in an IDP camp in North-East Myanmar. He was able to find small jobs inside and outside of the camp to provide food for his family. © UNHCR/Dumhpau Hkunring

Myanmar situation

Goussam Koko is a Nigerian refugee working in a collective vegetable garden in Sayam Forage camp, Niger. So far, 125 refugees, returned and host families have been trained and practice market gardening and fish farming activities. © UNHCR/Colin Delfosse

Sahel situation

Lushia has just arrived with her husband at the UNHCR transit centre, near the Joda border point in Renk, South Sudan. UNHCR buses take the most vulnerable new arrivals from the border to the center. They fled the civil war in South Sudan for Khartoum and were living there for eight years. © UNHCR/Charlotte Hallqvist

South Sudan situation

A Sudanese woman building her temporary shelter

Sudan situation

Isam sitting with his four children on a mattress in a room in his house which was partially damaged during the crisis in Syria.

Syria situation

Velyka Vilshanytsya is a small village approximately 45 km east of Lviv. On the early morning of 9th March 81 missiles were launched by Russian Federation targeting various locations in Ukraine. © UNHCR/Andrew McConnell

Ukraine situation

Rosmary Yaure and her son Leon, lived in Málaga, Duitama, Tunja, and Paima before returning to Venezuela one year ago. Rosmary is currently participating in the hairdressing workshop that UNHCR, along with its institutional partners, offers in her community, where people who have returned to the country are involved. © UNHCR/Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo

Venezuela situation

After fleeing Sudan due to violence, Rania* (35) approached UNHCR Registration Center in Cairo, together with her three children, Khalid* (3), Hamid*, and Naglaa * (0), where they were registered as asylum seekers. © UNHCR/Jaime Giménez

Western and Central Mediterranean situation