Nearly 2,500 refugee children are currently attending public schools in Greece thanks to an educational program which was introduced early in October, Greek Minister of Education Costas Gavroglou stated on Thursday while speaking in parliament.
New Zealand Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse left for Malaysia Tuesday to oversee the selection of refugees for resettlement to New Zealand and to speak with United Nations refugee agency officials.
A young Palestinian photographer attracted dozens of children at one of the Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza when he decorated the walls of their homes with beautiful photos he took during the past few years to bring them cheerfulness and bliss.
Demands for refugee status by Venezuelans crossing the land border with Brazil in the northern state of Roraima have been surging in the last two years.
Scottish Minister for International Development and Europe Alasdair Allan on Thursday hailed the contribution of migrants to the local Scottish society.
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) is expected to adopt an agreement on globally resolving issues on refugees and migrants at a high-level meeting to be held on Sept. 19, UNGA President Mogens Lykketoft said on Tuesday.
After more than a decade since the United Nations (UN) General Assembly started to observe World Refugee Day on June 20 every year, the refugee problem still remains unsolved.
Mahboob Jafari had barely seen the inside of a classroom, let alone taught in one, before he arrived in Indonesia as a refugee fleeing persecution in Afghanistan.
As 13-year-old Palestinian child Ibrahim al-Nemnem grew up between the narrow alleys of the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, a dear dream to be an engineer and improve the lives of its inhabitants grows up simultaneously.
Hanadi al-Aouni, displaced from the devastated city of Idlib, holds Shadi, her one-year-old infant, suffering from malnutrition, bemoaning her situation in her tent in the west of the Qab Elias refugee camp in the Bekaa region.
In the final stretch of a turbulent year trapped in acute double crises, the five-year debt issue and the escalating refugee crisis as of early 2015, more hard work seems to be awaiting Greece in 2016.
The year 2015 has seen the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World World II, as exodus of migrants from war-torn Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria have been flocking to the continent.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended on Monday her refugee policy, promising to reduce the refugee influx through effective measures and calling for a sustainable and lasting solution to the current refugee crisis.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Tuesday launched a campaign to raise 2 million U.S. dollars to provide the most vulnerable Palestinian refugees with the support they need to keep warm this winter, a UN spokesman told reporters here.
With refugee numbers rising, the German government is coming under increasing pressure. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has probably never been criticized for her decidedly positive attitude in the immigration debate to such an extent as she currently is.
U.S. President Barack Obama has asked his administration to open the door to at least 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next fiscal year, the White House said Thursday.
Israel's military on Sunday tried and handed light probation sentences to soldiers caught on video beating and insulting an unarmed Palestinian man in a West Bank refugee camp.
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