GENEVA - UNHCR's top refugee protection official reminded governments Thursday that "refugees are people, not statistics or global trends" and that their protection is "a humanitarian necessity, not a ...

MEXICO CITY, November 17 (UNHCR) - As Latin America's biggest metropolis, sprawling over a huge valley where the ancient Aztecs founded it, Mexico City provided an impressive stage for an event of ...

Gillian McFadyen receives funding from ACE Hub Wales, Public Health Wales for the project 'A Welsh Pathways to Peace: Digital Storytelling and Forced Migration' (2025-2026). Since figures were first ...

Refugees International expressed concern Friday over the deteriorating conditions faced by Sudanese refugees in Egypt, urging immediate international intervention to safeguard their rights. The ...

The U.S. has been waffling for decades over whether women have a right to refugee protection when fleeing gender-based violence. Under different administrations, the Department of Justice has ...

Saleh Ismail al-Badran fled war at home only to find himself trapped in another. “Since the beginning of the clashes, the situation has become very dire in the [Sudanese] capital, Khartoum,” said ...

A refugee from Afghanistan sits in her family's tent at a makeshift camp in Samos, Greece, June 25, 2019. (CNS photo/Giorgos Moutafis, Reuters) The April 7 announcement by the U.S. Conference of ...

The flow of asylum-seekers arriving in Canada via upstate New York has plunged, a sharp reversal from the summer months when a surge of thousands of people tried to get through the Canadian border.

The Iranian government’s decision to revoke bargeh sarshomari (census slips), documents that once provided limited but vital protection to over 2 million Afghans, has plunged many Afghans into ...

I arrived in America on Feb. 9, 2011, with just one carry-on bag containing everything to my name: middle school certificates, some clothes and one white bag bearing the International Organization for ...

In a recent decision denying asylum to a Salvadoran woman being stalked by gang members, the Board of Immigration Appeals — the highest administrative body for interpreting US immigration law — found ...

Franzisca Zanker receives funding from the European Research Council for the project "The Political Lives of Migrants: Perspectives from Africa" (Grant no: 101161856). Ronald Kalyango Sebba is ...