"Strong leadership and vision needed to deal with the refugee situation. This is as much a crisis of European solidarity as it is a refugee crisis", HC Grandi.

"This is a primarily refugee crisis, not only a migration phenomenon" (UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres)

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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)

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