Refugees

David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, is a former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom. View more opinion at CNN. (CNN)World Refugee Day is an emotional moment every year. When UNHCR publishes its annual totals on the n…

For years the world could count on the US to permanently welcome the largest number of refugees. Not anymore. Canada now holds that distinction after US president Donald Trumps administration dramatically cut the number of refugees it accepts. In 2018, 23,00…

Yangon, Myanmar - Drastic cuts to humanitarian assistance for refugees who fled Myanmar for Thailand have stoked widespread "hopelessness and depression" in camps along the border, deepening a mental health crisis that has seen suicide rates soar, a coalition…

Ekram Elmoge, a 21-year-old who resettled in St. Cloud from Somalia about five years ago, described the city as diversity without inclusion. Ms. Elmoge said she had been harassed by white residents, who have yelled, Go back to your country and Youre here for …

World Refugee Day: Must-Watch Documentaries

Indians attitude towards refugees is a paradox. While most people in the country (65%) are sympathetic to the idea of sheltering those displaced by war and conflict in other countries, a majority (64%) does not want Indias own borders to be opened as they fe…

Quito, Ecuador - Gina Pena said she was leaving a humanitarian aid office in Ecuador's capital Quito one day when she saw the man who had threatened her life back in Colombia. "If I open my mouth, he'll cut my family up. That's what he told me," Pena recalle…

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Human rights groups on Wednesday called on Southeast Asian leaders to rethink their approach to the Rohingya refugee crisis ahead of a regional summit in Bangkok this week. Myanmar regards Rohingya Muslims as illegal migrants from the In…

To most Americans, Somalia is a culinary blank space. Stories about the East African nation often focus on its nearly three decades of turmoil; stories about the Somali people focus on the hardships of the approximately two million refugees forced out of thei…

If youre not prepared for it, an old photograph of the Twin Towers can do a number on your heart. Thats partly why Fred Conrads picture of the sunbathers is so eerie and disquieting: We know something the sunbathers dont. Something horrific. Something that …