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:

Two children sitting amongst emergency supplies
© UNHCR/Emad Kabbas

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 displaced girl wearing a winter jacket stands in a snowy street on the outskirts of Kabul. This winter, millions of Afghans are in urgent need of humanitarian aid.
© UNHCR/Andrew McConnell

Winter Emergency

Donate now to help vulnerable families find safety and warmth this winter.
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.

Mpox Emergency
© WHO/Katson Maliro

Mpox Outbreak

Mpox is threatening refugee lives. Donate now to stop the spread.

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

Famine has just been confirmed in a camp in North Darfur. Please donate now to help displaced families survive conflict, starvation and disease. 

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

Ukraine Emergency

Help Ukrainians survive another winter at 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.

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