Displaced children in Hudaydah
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When violence erupts and disaster strikes, UNHCR teams are ready to deploy humanitarian emergency assistance within 72 hours.

UNHCR is often first in and last out during humanitarian emergencies, providing life-saving assistance and care to the people who need it most.

Supplies are warehoused in seven strategic hubs – Accra, Amman, Copenhagen, Douala, Dubai, Nairobi and Panama – to enable immediate transit anywhere in the world.

UNHCR staff cover every angle of emergency response, from establishing camps in safe zones, to installing water and sanitation, to coordinating emergency airlifts, to protecting the most vulnerable, including women and children.

Some of the key humanitarian emergencies that UNHCR are responding to are below:

Congolese refugee sisters embrace inside their home in Nakivale settlement, Uganda. Uganda hosts around one million refugee children.
© Australia for UNHCR/Hugh Rutherford

Unaccompanied Refugee Children in Uganda

Donate now to help refugee children forced to flee conflict and persecution on their own.

Ukraine. War Affected People In Donetsk Region Get Help To Repair Their Homes. (3)

Ukraine Crisis Appeal

Ukrainians need your help more than ever as Russia launches deadly new aerial assaults.
Nyauke, 18, sits with her mother and baby sister at a UNHCR transit centre near the South Sudanese border after fleeing violence in Bentiu, Sudan.
© UNHCR/Andrew McConnell

Sudan Emergency

Your donation can help the people of Sudan survive conflict, starvation and disease after two years of war.

Child wearing a green jumper and looking at the camera
© UNHCR/Shawkat Alharfoush

Syria Crisis

The situation in Syria remains extremely volatile. Although Assad’s government has collapsed, many Syrians are still displaced and urgently need humanitarian aid. 
Myanmar. Millions Of People At Risk In The Aftermath Of Cyclone Mocha
© UNHCR/Reuben Lim Wende

Rohingya Emergency

Send life-saving aid to Rohingya refugees who are hanging on by a thread. 
A man looks at the ruins of a bombed building during the return of civilians to Dahiye after the ceasefire
© UNHCR/Ximena Borrazas

Lebanon Emergency

Donate now to help families who’ve lost everything.

Afghanistan. UNHCR Exhausted Afghan Families Return Through Torkham Border Amid Growing Challenges.
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Afghanistan Emergency

Donate now to help struggling families survive.

Ethiopian refugees fleeing clashes in the country's northern Tigray region, cross the border into Hamdayet, Sudan.
© UNHCR/Hazim Elhag

Ethiopia Emergency

Conflict and food shortages are fuelling a full-scale humanitarian emergency.
Myanmar earthquake disaster
© UNHCR/Naw April Hpaw

Myanmar Earthquake

Provide urgent aid to families affected by the Myanmar Earthquake. Donate now to support UNHCR's emergency response.
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