Middle East conflict: an emergency for families across the region
Terrified families fleeing the escalating Middle East conflict urgently need your help.
Humanitarian Emergencies
Your gifts provide life-saving aid for people in crisis.
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:
Sudan Emergency
Help families survive conflict, starvation and disease. Donate to Sudan now.
Ukraine Crisis Appeal
Ukrainians need your help more than ever as Russia launches deadly new aerial assaults.
Afghanistan Emergency
A powerful earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan destroying homes and injuring more than 320 people. Send aid to families who've lost everything.
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.
Rohingya Emergency
Send life-saving aid to Rohingya refugees who are hanging on by a thread.
Ethiopia Emergency
Conflict and food shortages are fuelling a full-scale humanitarian emergency.
Myanmar Earthquake
Provide urgent aid to families affected by the Myanmar Earthquake. Donate now to support UNHCR's emergency response.
Horn of Africa Crisis
Help UNHCR provide safe shelter, cash assistance and life-saving aid to vulnerable communities.