The European Union (EU) said in a report on Tuesday that the EU-Turkey Statement on refugees is delivering results despite some challenges.
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 European Union(EU)looks unlikely to be able to complete its plan to relocate 160,000 refugees from Greece and Italy by September 2017, as figures released on Wednesday show that only 5,651 refugees have been relocated by far.
Local residents protested Monday in the capital city of Mytilene on Lesvos island, which has received the bulk of refugee and immigrant arrivals in Greece since early 2015, asking for the immediate decongestion of the island from refugees.
The Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum hopes that documents about Jewish refugees' life experience in Shanghai during World War II will eventually be listed in China's national legacy archives.
The Greek government reiterated a call to the EU to quickly help relocate thousands of refugees and migrants currently living in overcrowded reception centers on the Aegean Sea islands, as new clashes among refugees broke out on early Monday inside Moria hot spot on Lesvos island.
A humiliating state election defeat for Angela Merkel in her own backyard on Sunday and another drubbing that looms in two weeks in Berlin are casting an ominous shadow over the Chancellor's hopes of winning - or even running - for a fourth term in 2017.
Germany and other European Union countries turned a blind eye to the refugee crisis building on its external borders for too long, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a German newspaper interview to be published on Wednesday.
Dr. Ahmed Badawi, project director in Middle East Policy Center of Otto-Suhr Politics Institute in Free University of Berlin, believes "it is almost impossible to protect against an individual attacker intending to kill other people."
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.
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.
Ten young refugees from African and Middle Eastern countries will participate in the August Olympic games in Rio De Jenairo to spread the message of peace, solidarity and hope.
Myanmar government is working for ensuring the return of 105,000 Myanmar refugees taking shelter in Thailand, official media reported Thursday.
Australia's immigration policies again are at the center of a national debate as protestors blockade car parks in Sydney and Melbourne on Monday to mark 100-day of protests by asylum seekers held at Australia's immigration camp on Nauru.
As the Olympic movement gears up for the historic Rio Summer Olympics, refugee children running alongside Greek youth and Olympic medalists sent on Wednesday a strong message for peace across the world from the center of Athens.
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa visited Portugal's Council for Refugees (CPR) on Monday to mark World Refugee Day and said the Portuguese were united in receiving asylum-seekers.
The global forced displacement rose sharply in 2015 reaching the highest level ever, the the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a report released in Pretoria on Monday.
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