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:

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...
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

The Horn of Africa is experiencing the longest and most severe drought on record. 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
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Silent Emergencies

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

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