Last year, more than 82.4 million people — one out of every 95 people on the planet — were living as refugees after fleeing war, violence, persecution, economic turmoil and disaster, according to the ...

The first refugee to lead the U.N. refugee agency tells The Associated Press that the world faces a “very difficult moment in ...

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GENEVA – While the COVID-19 pandemic has “profoundly tested” global commitment to protecting refugees and forcibly displaced people, it has also shown the value of including refugees in national ...

Hanan Relief Group must raise funds to avoid scaling back programs that thousands of refugee families rely on.

Sudanese refugees in Ugandan and South Sudanese camps are enduring dire conditions as food subsidies shrink and financial support fails to cover basic needs, according to sources in the camps.Mahjoub ...

Years after the mass exodus of Rohingya people from Myanmar, the crisis stands as one of the clearest examples of the global failure of justice.

Greece wants to use tough measures to deter refugees from entering the country by sea from Libya. Large numbers are arriving on the island of Crete, but not on the same scale as in 2015.The rhetoric ...

Crouched on a curb in a parking lot, smoking furiously, Majedeldin Abdulhai was gathering strength for the next leg of a journey that had already almost killed him. It was August 2015, and for weeks ...

UNHCR and its partner World Vision Chile are continuing to provide support to vulnerable Venezuelan refugees and migrants throughout the COVID-19 crisis, including this mother whose daughters were ...

[E]nding mass parole in the U.S. should be seriously considered. Executive discretion … cannot serve as a backdoor to rewrite immigration laws. The Trump administration stopped new enrollments into ...

The team first debuted at the 2016 Rio Olympics and has since tripled in size. Yusra Mardini escaped the Syrian civil war in August 2015. She went from Syria to Lebanon and then to Turkey, and from ...