Global Initiative Sites Updates 2025

                                                                                 October 15th to 27th 2025 LEBANON Over 300,000 Syrian refugees return from Lebanon in 2025 – UNHCR The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced on Friday that the number of Syrian refugees who have returned from Lebanon to Syria has reached 300,000 since the beginning of 2025. Lisa Abu Khaled, UNHCR’s media officer, told the Anadolu Agency that the sixth batch of returnees departed on Oct. 23 through the Arida border crossing in northern Lebanon, with around 400 refugees heading to areas in Homs and Idlib.The latest returns are part of the voluntary repatriation program organized by the Lebanese government in coordination with the Syrian transitional government and under UNHCR supe...

                                                                            September 26th to October 10th, 2025 UNHCR UNHCR’s Grandi: critical funding gap may force deeper cuts to refugee aid The impact of the latest funding gap could spill into next year, with no money to cover expenditure at the start of 2026. This follows an “incredibly damaging” period when various programmes to provide emergency aid, education, resettlement, and support to survivors of torture and gender-based violence were shuttered – decisions that Grandi said were the result of “political choices with disastrous financial implications”. “As things stand, we project that we will end 2025 with $3.9 billion in funds available – a decrease of $1.3 billion compared to 2024 – or roughly 25 per cent less,” Grandi told Membe...