Fivepeoplewerekilledand22otherswoundedonTuesdayasprotestsoverreducedfoodrationsbyrefugeesfromtheDemocraticRepublicoftheCongo(DRC)turnedviolent,Rwandanpolicesaid
TheUnitedNationsonWednesdaycalledonMyanmartogiveaidagenciesunhinderedaccesstocampsithasbuiltfortensofthousandsofMuslimRohingyarefugeesbeforetheycanreturnafterfl
ThetophumanitarianofficialinYemenwarnedTuesdaythatmillionsofpeopleinthecountryremainatsevereriskduetotheworseningsituationinthecountryduetotheclosureofland,seaa
ByAPDwriterEaswaranCOLOMBO,Sept.30(APD)–SriLankaonSaturdaybannedprotestsoutsideadetentioncamphousingRohingyarefugees.Alocalcourtissuedtheorderpreventingprotests
TheUnitedNationsrefugeeagencyUNHCRsaidonMondaythatamongtheover65millionpersonsforciblydisplacedin2016,almost10millionwerepersonswithdisabilities.Inastatementiss
In 2000, the United Nations designated June 20 as World Refugee Day, to honor “the courage, strength and determination of women, men and children who are forced to flee their homeland under threat of persecution, conflict and violence.”
Itisestimatedthatover28,000SouthSudaneserefugeesarrivedinSudanduringthefirsthalfofMay2017,accordingtoareportfromtheUNHCR.Therecentinfluxofrefugeesmeansthatatota
UNHCR High Commissioner Filippo Grandi said Monday a total of 50,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan will leave the country and head to other countries.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said Thursday the number of Somali refugees voluntarily repatriated from the Dadaab camp in northwest Kenya had reached 30, 349 since December 2014.
The UN refugee agency on Tuesday appealed to donors for an additional 115.4 million U.S. dollars for voluntary return, reintegration of Somali refugees from Dadaab camp in northeast Kenya.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Tuesday said thousands of people from the conflict-hit South Sudan have fled to Uganda following a recent fighting between rival army factions in the capital, Juba.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday said that 17.5 million U.S. dollars are urgently needed to meet the immediate needs of refugees fleeing Fallujah, a UN spokesman told reporters here.
Conflict in countries like South Sudan and Somalia raised the total number of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in sub-Saharan Africa to 18.4 million in 2015, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).
The United Nations (UN) Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday released its Projected Global Resettlement Needs for 2017, which said that 1.19 million people will need resettlement in 2017.
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says it has repatriated 13,800 Somali refugees as of April 28 from the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya since the voluntary program started in December 2014.
As many as 500 people may have lost their lives when a large ship went down in the Mediterranean Sea at an unknown location between Libya and Italy this weekend, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, on Wednesday reiterated his call for the Hungarian authorities to ensure unimpeded access for people in need of protection in line with its legal and moral obligations.