Helping people forced to flee

At a time when record numbers are fleeing their homes, we help millions of people worldwide every year. Each one of them has a story. In 2025, our 14,000 aid workers helped 10.6 million people across 39 countries.

Preserving dignity

The displaced people we work with are strong, dignified and resourceful. Most are able and willing to fend for themselves. But sometimes, when a person has lost everything, it can be hard to retain a sense of dignity and confidence. We work with them to make sure that the support they and their families receive is adjusted to their particular needs.

From supporting a father in finding employment to helping a child overcome trauma, we stand behind displaced people. We help them find safety and hope in their new situation, no matter their age, gender, religious or political beliefs, or disabilities. 

Defending rights

As they leave behind everything familiar, many displaced people find themselves denied justice. With our advice, they inform themselves. We guide them as they claim their right to a safe home, obtain the documents to prove their identity, and pursue their right to work.

Rebuilding futures

When children witness terrible events, it’s not easy to help them cope. But we find ways to guide them forward. With our education, vocational training and community activities, children and youth can learn and play. Adults can socialise, recover, and earn a living. They have safe places where they can get back on their feet.

They seize their futures. And we provide them with the mental, physical, and legal tools they need on their way.

In 2025 our seasoned teams were on the frontlines of humanitarian assistance, doing everything they could to help those searching for safety in 39 countries worldwide.

We are grateful for all the support we receive from private individuals, companies and institutional donors that enables us to help so many people.

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When people are forced to flee their homes, they often experience ongoing threats to their safety. At the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), we help to ensure displaced people and communities are protected, by preventing and responding to violence, coercion, and actions taken by others to deny them their rights.

Protection is about safety, dignity and rights. It is about people being safe from the violence or abuse during an armed conflict or natural disaster. We work to reduce risks for displaced people and strengthen their capacity for self-protection. From providing lighting in a camp to make it safer for women to move freely, to resolving violence through mediation, we strive to ensure that displaced people can live in safety and dignity, with access to impartial assistance.

Protection in its broadest sense has always been part of our DNA. Whether we are helping people access their rights through our legal assistance work, protecting children through providing safe spaces to learn and play, or providing families with a safe place to live, protection is at the heart of what we do.

We ensure that all our activities – our programmes as well as our policy and advocacy work – contribute to protection outcomes and meet rigorous standards, so they are safe, participatory, accountable and dignified for the communities and people we serve.

A total of 420,556 people benefited from our protection from violence work in 2024.

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• Protection from violence