In Kenya’s drought-prone Kajiado County, a community is capturing rain, recharging groundwater, and regenerating a landscape to grow year-round food and raise livestock.

The year 2024 was pivotal for the Global Land Initiative. Land degradation and restoration remained prominent on the global policy agenda throughout.

By replacing slash-and-burn agriculture with nitrogen-fixing trees, a low-cost farming model restores degraded land, boosts yields, and offers a regional blueprint for rainforest conservation.

Sebastião Salgado’s family transformed a barren cattle ranch into a thriving Atlantic Forest — a living example of what regeneration can achieve in a world facing desertification.

A project that helps migrants obtain identity cards is unlocking access to work, healthcare, and civic rights for low-income residents in Phnom Penh. Funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the initiative is improving lives in

When the food began to run out, Solage Manamu knew she couldn’t stay. For years, she had lived in a refugee settlement in northern Uganda with her six children, surviving on shrinking food rations. Eventually, the supplies stopped altogether. While

What’s the context? The Camino de Costa Rica coast-to-coast route provides rural people with an income - and a stake in protecting nature TSIOBATA, Costa Rica - A clatter of bird call erupts and a few berries fall from the forest canopy high…

Looking to build a secure future, returning refugees are working alongside local residents to turn a 250-acre plot of bushland into a productive farm. Farmer Alice Ayo Matata, 30, takes a break from clearing land at the Can-Coya farming collective,…

Their sons and brothers got caught up in the bush wars roiling the world’s youngest country, so the women decided to bring them home. 'Women for Peace' is an independent community group that is leading peace building efforts in Eastern Equatoria,…

Refugees returning to remote areas of South Sudan often struggle to get vital nationality documents. So UNHCR is taking the registration process to them. Farmer Juma Alzen Sebil ran for his life when gunmen attacked his hometown in 2016, shooting…

Pain, anguish and a search for answers as an explosion kills four refugee boys in Maban County, where decades of conflict have left a cache of unexploded ordnance. Bunj, SOUTH SUDAN – Their schoolwork done, the group of boys aged 12 to 14 set ou

Removed from the United States, asylum-seekers fear for their safety in northern Mexico and deadly violence if they return to their Central American homelands. Honduran mother Ana, 27, holds her three-year-old daughter in her arms at a makeshift…

UNHCR has more than 17,300 staff, most of whom are based in the field. Meet Kristin Riis Halvorsen, who runs operations in southern Mexico. Name: Kristin Riis Halvorsen, 43, from Norway. Why did you become an aid worker? For as long as I can remember…

In Saltillo, a manufacturing boomtown in northern Mexico, companies are hiring again as lockdowns ease, and Salvadoran cab driver Alberto Rivas* saw an opportunity. He bought a taxi and worked long hours to shuttle residents around the city where

When a criminal gang targeted Ana and Paula’s* teenage daughter and son, the family ran for their lives. An LGBTI couple who fled violence in Latin America, walk hand in hand down the streets of their new home, Geneva, Switzerland. © UNHCR/Mark…

Deadly gang violence is driving record numbers of women, children and even entire families to flee the North of Central America to seek refuge in Mexico. A Salvadoran mother and two young children pictured at a UNHCR registration centre in southern…

First-ever Global Refugee Forum wraps up with over 770 pledges to boost opportunities for refugees and their hosts. A historic meeting in Geneva wrapped up today with wide-ranging and substantial commitments to help millions of refugees and the…

Maha Mamo receives word of her naturalization at a surprise ceremony in Geneva, ending nightmare of statelessness shared by millions worldwide. Formerly stateless activist Maha Mamo photographed after receiving her Brazilian citizenship at the Palais…

Name: Taimur Hasan, 50, from Bangladesh. Job title: Public Health Officer. Fifteen years with UNHCR, working in Bangladesh and Nepal, and on emergency assignment in Iraq. Why did you become an aid worker? As a doctor, my primary goal is to help…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres urges donors to “step up to the plate,” as Jim Yong Kim says World Bank stands in solidarity with refugees. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, UN…