Refugees

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warrens new immigration plan would decriminalize migration, making it a civil rather than criminal violation, following the lead of a plan by former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro. Unveiled in a Medium post…

From where Johnny Grahn sits, Sweden is already helping too much. A bus driver by profession, he occupies a seat on the Filipstad government council, representing the Sweden Democrats. His face tightens at mention of the refugees. As he describes it, they ha…

By Bryan Pietsch WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - A Guatemalan asylum seeker left some members of a U.S. House panel visibly shaken on Wednesday with the story of her daughter's death, saying the toddler had contracted a deadly lung infection during a 20-day …

In the 1980s, Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush supported El Salvadors military-led government in a civil war against various leftist groups. The governments atrocities have been well documented, and tens of thousands of Salvadorans died. Hundreds…

In the past four years, Greece has been hit by a migrant crisis that brought an influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and other countries across its borders. After a crackdown at internal European borders to prevent asylum seekers from reach…

She was a high-flying international human rights lawyer who worked with refugees. Then she was found dead on a beach in East Sussex. What happened in-between is a story of crime and punishment, and a question of how justice works in the social media era. Sim…

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…

Who's behind attack in Libya that killed refugees and migrants?

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.