Photos and Videos

Crush at the Tunisian Border. © UNHCR/A.Duclos

Putting Our Work into Focus

UNHCR has more than 250,000 photos, dating back decades. The agency's photo library in Geneva is guardian of the world's largest collection of refugee-related photos covering nearly all of the major displacements of the last 60 years. These images provide a portrait of the lives of refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced people and the stateless in all corners of the globe, as well as the work of the thousands of UN staff who have helped them. Some of our photos are shown here, or on unhcr.org. Many more are showcased on Flickr. We offer the use of our photos free to the media.

To give you a better idea of the daily struggle for survival that refugees face, as well as the kind of work UNHCR does in the field, we send out video crews to document our different operations around the world. The videos also illustrate the kind of challenges UNHCR staff face in the field, often working close to the front lines, where refugees need the most protection. In addition to the videos shown here, you can access many more in the UNHCR Video Gallery on unhcr.org, and on our Youtube-channel.

If you need photos or video footage, please contact UNHCR Regional Office in Stockholm, swest@unchr.org, or +46-(0)8-457 4880.

Photogalleries

Mali 2012

Malians refugees flee for safety to Niger

New arrivals in Ethiopia

Dolo Ado becomes a safe haven for Somalis.

Running out of space

Somali refugees in Dadaab, Kenya.

Bossaso: Life on the edge

Somalia: fleeing their homes to escape conflict.

Southern Sudan

Southerners on the Move Before Sudanese Vote

Refugees

Flowing Across Borders.

Espen Rasmussen

Refugees through a brilliant optic.

The internally displaced of Iraq

1.5 million people displaced throughout Iraq.

60th anniversary

60 years for the world’s uprooted people.

Lampedusa

Crossing the Mediterranean Sea - turns into a graveyard.

Tunisia’s tented transit Camp

A new camp full of UNHCR tents, has sprung up close to Tunisia’s border with Libya to provide shelter to thousands of migrant workers desperate to get hope. The UNHCR-run facility is already full, with 15,000 people from around Africa and Asia who have fled from Libya.

Most of the new arrivals are penniless and have no hope of making it home on their own. Many of the sub-Saharan Africans arriving at the camp say they fled because of threats and abuse, with some being attacked and robbed in their homes as well as at the checkpoints that have sprung up along many roads in Libya. Non-African arrivals also report having their belongings taken at the checkpoints, but say they have not been the victims of racism and threats.

With people continuing to arrive daily, UNHCR and other agencies are bracing themselves for what could be a large-scale humanitarian disaster if the fighting worsens and if large numbers of Libyans try to flee their country.

2011 Crisis in Libya

Southern Sudan