UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

His public acknowledgment of the challenges faced by the Rohingya refugees and the efforts to support them is expected to raise further awareness of the ongoing crisis. Tahsan’s visit ...

Greek PM offers condolences for fatal ski resort fire in Turkey The Greek Herald 22:05 Tue, 21 Jan New fire station, more housing, safer roads among Syracuse mayor’s final-year plans The Post-Standard ...

GISENYI, Rwanda (Reuters) - Refugees, surrendering Congolese soldiers and stranded truckers thronged the Rwandan border on Tuesday, hoping to reach safety after rebels captured the nearby ...

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s push to have Egypt and Jordan take in large numbers of Palestinian refugees from besieged Gaza fell flat with those countries’ governments and ...

Jewish youth on a sailboat in Salonika harbor, 1929, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Gabriel Albocher ...

The refugees - mostly Kurds and many said to be heading for Britain - calmed down only when they were assured they would not be turned away from Italy. The ship was towed to the Sicilian port of ...

Listen to what happened when one caught fire “Sanctions are an important obstacle for the return of refugees,” Grandi said. There are more than 4.7 million refugees registered with the U.N. refugee ...

As director of asylum-seeker programs at Jericho Road Community Health Center, Tice was particularly concerned by one order: the one that suspended refugee resettlement in the United States.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan refugees on Friday appealed to Pakistan’s premier to ease a visa regime on humanitarian grounds after President Donald Trump paused the U.S. refugee programs.

Refugees who were slated to travel to the United States after a years-long and often cumbersome process have had their flights canceled, according to a State Department memo to resettlement ...