Refugees

Thousands of Afghan workers and refugees are leaving Iran each week because of the dire economic situation caused by United States sanctions. They say rising prices and the falling value of the Iranian rial makes it impossible to survive. For some Afghans, …

For a Syrian refugee in Lebanon who is trying to navigate the legal path to resettlement, it can be difficult to find answers—and overstretched humanitarian organizations can take as long as three months to respond to an email when the demand for help is high…

Philippa P.B. Hughes is a creative strategist and social sculptor who designs art-fueled projects for curious folks to engage with art and with one another. She leads CuriosityConnects.us, a partner in Looking For America, a national series inviting political…

As a barometer of the worlds humanitarian crises, the annual appeal underscored the inability of powerful nations in the deeply polarized United Nations Security Council to curb long-running conflicts or to confront climate-related disasters. The unfolding c…

SYDNEY, Australia Ten months after it was enacted, the Australian Parliament on Wednesday repealed a law that had allowed refugees and asylum seekers being held offshore to seek emergency medical care in Australia, a move that human rights advocates denounced…

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Wednesday removed the right of doctors to order sick asylum seekers be evacuated from two remote Pacific detention centers for medical treatment, a repeal that opponents said risks the lives of refugees. Under Australia’s con…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Australia's offshore detention policy for asylum seekers has drawn criticism Australia has controversially repealed a law which allowed sick refugees held offshore to be treated in the country. The government's pus…

From January 2015 to October 2016, a refugee camp that came to be known as the Calais Jungle housed more than 8,000 migrants. Located near the French port of Calais, the encampment’s conditions were notoriously poor —Human Rights Watch described the environme…

The logic behind labeling drug cartels as terrorists is debatable but not outrageous. They do carry out widespread murder of innocent civilians. The massacre of nine dual Mexican and American citizens in Sonora on Nov. 4 inspired family members of the decease…

YANGON (Reuters) - Bangladesh is blocking hundreds of thousands of Rohingya children from accessing meaningful education, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, urging authorities to lift restrictions on schooling in refugee camps. In a report called ‘Are we n…