Along the Western Balkans route, UNHCR and partners provide winterized accommodation, food, warm clothes, blankets, and medical assistance. (UNHCR)

After reports of some 160 deaths in the Mediterranean, UNHCR renews its appeal to countries for help in saving human lives by offering more resettlement places and other safe alternatives to protection for refugees, including through family reunification.

Accessible legal avenues are needed for refugees to reach safety without putting themselves and their families at risk. (UNHCR)

A healthy Syrian boy was born on 4 Nov in Slavonski Brod hospital on the day his family arrived in the Winter Transit Center. They left on 7 Nov. (UNHCR)

A UNHCR study finds that around half of those travelling to Libya do so believing they can find jobs there, but end up fleeing onwards to Europe to escape life-threatening insecurity, instability, difficult economic conditions plus widespread exploitation and abuse.

843 persons relocated from Italy as of 11 July. What is the relocation programme? How does it work? Read more here: http://goo.gl/azbXQQ

79% of the Syrians and 44% of the Afghans polled had a secondary, high school or university degree (UNHCR)

6,800 people rescued off the coasts of Libya in 54 different SAR events between 29 and 30 August.

18/04 shipwreck last year left at least 675 people dead, talian navy said as it concluded operations to recover the corpses

1 human in every 113 affected, forced displacement hits record high globally