United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

18.03.2008 A five-year downward trend in asylum applications in industrialised countries was reversed in 2007, largely because of an increase in the number of Iraqi asylum-seekers, according to provisional statistics compiled by the UN refugee agency.
+ Carnage and Despair in Iraq

13.02.2008 Aid agencies operating in Iraq have launched their first Consolidated Appeal for more than $265 million to help meet the immediate needs of the most vulnerable displaced Iraqis.

30.01.2008 The UN refugee agency has asked donors to contribute $90 million for programmes to assist millions of internally displaced people during the coming year.