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:

Borik, 75, and his wife Lena, 73, speak with UNHCR staff member Arevig in Goris, south-eastern Armenia, where tens of thousands of refugees have arrived in less than a week.
© UNHCR/Karen Minasyan

Armenia Emergency

Send life-saving aid to Armenian refugees forced to flee their homes.
Thousands of families have been displaced due to recent climate change and droughts in Ethiopia's Somali regions.
© UNHCR/Eugene Sibomana

Horn of Africa Food Crisis

Help UNHCR provide safe shelter, cash assistance and life-saving aid to drought-stricken communities.
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.
Acel, 5, stands outside his family's shelter at UNHCR's transit centre in Renk, South Sudan
© UNHCR

Silent Emergencies

Refugees trapped in silent emergencies have been enduring incredible hardship for months, or even years. They need your help.

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.
Mpox Emergency
© WHO/Katson Maliro

Mpox Outbreak

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

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