Angelina Jolie meets Syrian refugees in northern Iraq
Angelina Jolie visited a camp for Syrian refugees in northern Iraq to drum up support… Read More
6 years ago
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Landslides kill 12 as monsoon batters Rohingya refugees
Landslides triggered by monsoon rains killed at least 12 people in Bangladesh near camps housing… Read More
6 years ago
India grants land ownership rights to refugees who fled Pakistan 70 years ago
BANGKOK: Refugees in India’s western state of Maharashtra have been granted land ownership rights 70… Read More
7 years ago
Syria is death trap for civilians, UN refugee chief warns
Civilians can no longer flee fighting and bombing raids in Syria because borders are so… Read More
7 years ago
Flawed return deal offers no way back for Rohingya refugees
Bungling, distortion and diplomatic doublespeak have hollowed out the deal to repatriate Rohingya from Bangladesh… Read More
7 years ago
Canada should take in Rohingya refugees: special envoy
Canada should take in Rohingya refugees and press other nations to do the same, said… Read More
7 years ago
Netanyahu cancels UN deal on African migrants in shock reversal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled an agreement with the UN refugee agency aimed at… Read More
7 years ago
Malala working on new book about refugees
NEW YORK: Nobel Prize laureate and activist Malala Yousafzai is working on her next book about… Read More
7 years ago
Refugees’ choice to decide death in Afghanistan or bitter life in Pakistan
PESHAWAR: Death awaits you in Afghanistan, says refugee Mohammad Wali, insisting he prefers to endure… Read More
7 years ago
Libya to repatriate bodies of Pakistani refugees
TRIPOLI: The bodies of around a dozen Pakistani refugees who drowned while trying to cross… Read More
7 years ago
UN calls on Myanmar for unhindered access to Rohingya camps
MAUNGDAW, MYANMAR: The United Nations on Wednesday called on Myanmar to give aid agencies unhindered… Read More
7 years ago
‘10,000 refugees’ to be relocated from Libya to EU in 2018
ROME: Up to 10,000 people stranded in refugee camps and detention centres in Libya could… Read More
7 years ago
Denmark no longer to automatically accept UN refugee resettlement quota
COPENHAGEN: Denmark will no longer automatically accept a quota of refugees under a UN resettlement… Read More
7 years ago
Countries pledge $857 million to help world’s refugees in 2018
GENEVA: The United Nations said Tuesday that it had received pledges amounting to $857 million… Read More
7 years ago
US pulls out of UN’s Global Compact on Migration
NEW YORK: The administration of President Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from a… Read More
7 years ago
Trudeau urges international community to fight Libyan slavery
OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday urged the international community to "do more"… Read More
7 years ago
Myanmar Rohingya must return as citizens: UN refugee chief
GENEVA: Myanmar must grant citizenship to the Rohingya to allow hundreds of thousands of people… Read More
7 years ago
Ball game brings rare joy to Rohingya refugee boys
KUTUPALONG, BANGLADESH: In a refugee camp in Bangladesh crammed with makeshift bamboo shelters, Rohingya boys… Read More
7 years ago
White nationalists stage anti-refugee protests in Tennessee
SHELBYVILLE, USA: About 300 white nationalists and neo-Nazis took to the streets of the small… Read More
7 years ago
Trump administration to add new screening for refugees: document
NEW YORK: The Trump administration will require all refugees to provide information about their whereabouts going… Read More
7 years ago