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 ...

More than one million people have fled the war in Sudan to seek refuge in neighbouring South Sudan, according to the United Nations. In its latest update on one of the world’s worst displacement ...

ABUJA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The United Nations will this week appeal for $910 million to help tackle a humanitarian crisis in northeastern Nigeria, which has been in the grip of an Islamist ...

The UN Special Envoy for Yemen and the head of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on Wednesday welcomed the release of the crew of a commercial ship held by Houthi rebels for more than a ...

The security situation in Myanmar continues to remain highly volatile, with intensified airstrikes across multiple regions leading to dozens of civilian casualties, the UN Office for the Coordination ...

Uncarved jade, courtesy of Xiaoyu Li. When Li was a child, she received a jade bracelet as her first piece of jewellery. It marked the beginning of her understanding of Eastern culture and symbolized ...

The Royal Canadian Mint sells many unique coins, and its latest offering celebrates the Lunar New Year. The Lunar Year Of The Snake With Jade 2 oz Coin features an unusual design: a 30 mm silver ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...

As world leaders gather at Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting from 20 to 24 January, UN Women will highlight that gender equality is a fundamental human right, and it’s ...

The resource-rich eastern provinces of North and South Kivu – which are home to more than 4.6 million displaced people according to the agency – have been mired in conflict for three decades ...

Hundreds of mysterious engraved “sun stones” unearthed in Denmark may have been ceremonially buried because a volcanic eruption in about 2900 BC made the sun disappear. A total of 614 stone ...