Displaced children in Hudaydah
© UNHCR/NMO

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:

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.
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. 
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.

Refugee from Ukraine Katerina holding her son Arsen.
© UNHCR/Anna Liminowicz

Ukraine Emergency

Help Ukrainians enduring another year of full-scale war.

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.

Ma Phyu Ma, an internally displaced Rohingya woman, lost her home during Cyclone Mocha
© UNHCR/Reuben Lim Wende

Rohingya Emergency

Send life-saving aid to Rohingya refugees who are hanging on by a thread. 
Afghan woman Zahra*, 34, looks at the camera while holding her baby daughter, a snowy landscape in the background.
© UNHCR/Julian Busch

Afghanistan Emergency

The people of Afghanistan are bracing for a bitter winter. Donate now to provide warmth and safety.

Flooding in Yemen devastates homes of internally displaced people
© Yemen Development Foundation

Yemen Emergency

Flooding has devastated families who've been living in temporary camps for over seven years. Please send help now.
UNHCR distributes relief items to families displaced by Storm Daniel.
© UNHCR/Ziyad Alhamadi

Libya Flood Emergency

On 11 September 2023, Storm Daniel killed thousands of people and caused catastrophic flooding in eastern Libya. Six months on, the need is still huge...
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