Refugees

Yanghee Lee, the U.N. special rapporteur on Myanmar, pictured on March 11. Denis Balibouse/Reuters Yanghee Lee, the United Nations special rapporteur on Myanmar, said security forces and rebels are committing human rights violations and possible new war cri…

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A group of lawmakers decried the conditions at the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas following a visit organized by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. (July 1) AP, AP Fiona Apple is putting her "Criminal" to work. The musician took to…

Rising living costs are putting the squeeze on those who have taken refuge in Ethiopia. Al Jazeera's Leah Harding met a Sudanese refugee trying to make ends meet in the capital Addis Ababa.

In Lebanon, around 350,000 Syrian refugees dont have access to enough safe and nutritious food. To stem the crisis, the World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations introduced an electronic voucher system to distribute food aid. People are given debit car…

A German charity ship carrying 42 refugees and migrants rescued off the coast of Libya has entered Italian waters, defying an explicit ban by the country's far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini.  The captain of the Dutch-flagged boat decided to head to…

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis expressed great sorrow at seeing a photo of a Salvadoran man and his 23-month-old daughter lying dead, face down in the Rio Grande river after trying to cross into the United States, the Vatican said on Wednesday. The p…

The city of Matamoros sits tantalisingly close to the US border, with Brownville, Texas in clear view over the Gateway International Bridge.  It was here that the Salvadoran refugee Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, 25, and his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, …

United Nations - The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has raised $110m in funding pledges, helping to plug a budget gap that remains after the United States cut its 2019 contributions to zero. Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Wo…

Bawku West district, Ghana - Salimata Kali is still looking for her husband, six months after she was forced to flee Zoaga, a small town in southern Burkina Faso near the border with Ghana. She fled because of communal violence. The Burkinabe army had been …