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Afghans returning from Pakistan. Photo:UNHCR |
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Photo gallery
For more than five decades UNHCR has been helping the world’s uprooted peoples.
The agency’s first task was to help an estimated one million, mainly European
civilians, who remained displaced in the aftermath of World War Two.
But during the 1950s the refugee crisis spread to Africa, later to Asia and then
back to Europe becoming a global problem.
At its height in the mid-1990s UNHCR was helping more than 27 million people
in a single year and since 1951 the agency has assisted an estimated 50 million
refugees to successfully restart their lives.
In UNHCR's photo archive you can follow
the pictorial history of those turbulent years, UNHCR’s role and the struggle
for survival of the world’s most vulnerable groups of people.
You are welcome to download pictures from UNHCR's web sites but please, always
give UNHCR and the photographer credit:
©UNHCR/name of the photographer.
Please, contact our office,
Kiki Rodriguez Norman, rodriguk (@ ) unhcr.org,
tel
direct: +46 8 457 48 91,
if you wish to have any pictures in a special
format for publications or if you would like to have further information
about UNHCR's photos.
Flickr. We
offer the use of our photos free to the media.
‘World Village Festival’ in Helsinki took place 24-25 May 2008. At the joint UNHCR and Finnish Refugee Council stand and game lounge we invited all to play the interactive web-game "Against All Odds".
Despite rickety boats and brutal treatment from smugglers, Ethiopians and Somalis continue to make the perilous journey.
The regional photo gallery is presently under construction
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(www.unhcr.org)
An elderly Sudanese refugee from Darfur in eastern Chad.
©UNHCR/B.Heger
Photos by Espen Rasmussen, Norway, working in the tradition of documentary
and photo journalism. He has covered several humanitarian crises
such as the exodus of Iraqi refugees in Syria, the displaced
in Georgia and refugees in Yemen.
(slideshow by Zalmaï, pdf)
(slideshow by Zalmaï, pdf)
2 slideshows from Afghanistan by Zalmaï.
The photographer Zalmaï, an Afghan refugee and today a Swiss citizen, has been awarded several national and international prizes for his creative work in photography.
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New arrivals in Yemen