Geneva: A group of independent experts have called upon the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to “act with a sense of urgency” in taking major decisions in pro ...
New York: Global displacement reached a staggering 79.5 million people last year - almost double the number of people in crisis registered a decade ago – owing to war, violence, per ...
New York: A spike in the number of refugees reaching Greek island reception centres is likely to worsen the situation in already “dangerously overcrowded” facilities there, th ...
New York: Refugee children in their millions are missing out on an education, the UN said on Friday, in an appeal to host countries to back more inclusive policies to prevent them from &l ...
New York, Aug 20 (JEN): While praising the “efficient, coordinated, humane and innovative response” by Brazil on behalf of fleeing Venezuelans, the UN refugee chief has said t ...
New York, July 6 (JEN): Heavy monsoon rains in Bangladesh have drenched the Cox’s Bazar settlement, home to more than 900,000 Rohingya refugees, destroying some 273 shelters, and in ...
Geneva (Xinhua/UNI) About 65 people have drowned after their boat sank some 45 nautical miles off the coast of Tunisia early Friday, in one of the worst incidents on the Mediterranean in ...
New York: Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun’s desperate and ultimately successful bid for asylum in the face of alleged death-threats from her own family, provides a “glimpse into the p ...
Toronto: A Saudi teenager, who has been escaping from her family, has arrived in Canada after the nation granted her asylum.
- UNHCR asks Ethiopia for urgent access to 96,000 Eritreans cut off without food
- Independent experts urge UNHRC to take decisive measures against China for collective repression in Tibet, Xinjiang
- UN refugee chief laments nearly 80 million people forcibly displaced
- Athens urged to fast track asylum seekers amid island shelters crisis – UNHCR
- More than half of world’s refugee children ‘do not get an education’, warns UNHCR
