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:

A UNHCR officer with her back to the camera holds the hand of an infant

Middle East conflict: an emergency for families across the region

Terrified families fleeing the escalating Middle East conflict urgently need your help.

Baby held in a woman’s arms while she feeds the infant with a bottle of milk

Sudan Emergency

Help families survive conflict, starvation and disease. Donate to Sudan now.

Ukraine. War Affected People In Donetsk Region Get Help To Repair Their Homes. (3)

Ukraine Crisis Appeal

Ukrainians need your help more than ever as Russia launches deadly new aerial assaults.

UNHCR teams travel on foot to reach Afghan villages affected by the earthquake in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan.

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.

Basmah, 54, stands with her daughter Islam in front of the living room of their damaged house in Al Mansheya in Dar’a Governorate, upon returning back home.

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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.

Myanmar. Millions Of People At Risk In The Aftermath Of Cyclone Mocha

Rohingya Emergency

Send life-saving aid to Rohingya refugees who are hanging on by a thread.

Ethiopian refugees fleeing clashes in the country's northern Tigray region, cross the border into Hamdayet, Sudan.

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.

Thousands of families have been displaced due to recent climate change and droughts in Ethiopia's Somali regions.