A Swedish flag flies at half-mast at Rosenbad, Sweden's Government Offices in Stockholm, Wednesday Feb. 5, 2025, after a ...

Countless refugees have drowned in capsized boats and rafts, or asphyxiated in the cargo holds of otherwise seaworthy and road worthy-vessels and succumbed to the limitations of their bodies, the ...

The Israeli military blew up several buildings in the occupied West Bank in a series of simultaneous explosions that the ...

Impact entrepreneur and UN Global Goals advocate Natasha Mudhar is making a mark with The World We Want Studios, a production ...

February 3, 2025 • Many Africans were caught off guard by the abrupt halt to U.S. foreign aid, stopping money flowing for wide-ranging projects like disease response, girls' education and free ...

More than 70 families newly arrived to the Quad-Cities from refugee camps lost federal aid for rent, utilities and food on ...

A Quad-Cities-based refugee resettlement nonprofit is among those navigating a way forward after their federal aid was suspended last week. Federally funded government assistance serving refugees ...

Several large U.S. companies deleted some or all DEI references from their most recent annual reports to investors, an NPR ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke with Elon Musk a day after U.S. President Donald Trump promised to cut the ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a statement that “the South African government has not confiscated any land.” ...

For more recent updates please browse the key facts for countries hosting the world’s refugees. The Global Compact on Refugees emphasizes the importance of greater responsibility- and burden-sharing.

Tough new security checks meant the numbers of arriving refugees tumbled from the 84,994 recorded during Barack Obama’s last year in office to a record low of 11,814 in 2020 —although the impact of ...