Refugees

UNITED NATIONS (AP) A key architect of the long-awaited U.S. plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace warned Wednesday that "nothing can be meaningfully fixed" until Gaza's Hamas rulers and Palestinian Islamic Jihad renounce their vows to destroy Israel and stop ca…

Almost one million Rohingya refugees are living in camps in Bangladesh. For years, government-run schools have quietly welcomed Rohingya refugee children. But recently, scores of children have been expelled. Al Jazeera's Tanvir Chowdhury reports from Cox's …

"Many ppl are shocked & upset about the election result," the Sudanese refugee tweeted. "The question is what are we going to do to help the forgotten ppl... their lives (are) in danger." Manus Provincial Police Commander David Yapu told AFP that he was…

Thousands of North Korean women and girls are sold and trafficked into sexual slavery in China, generating millions of dollars for local crime syndicates, according to a new report by London-based rights group Korea Future Initiative published Monday. The …

Image copyrightGetty Images Scientists believe that global sea levels could rise far more than predicted, due to accelerating melting in Greenland and Antarctica, The long-held view has been that the world's seas would rise by a maximum of just under a met…

Eastleigh, Kenya - In a restaurant in Eastleigh, a noisy Nairobi suburb, Shariff Omar, a Kenyan Somali, reaches for a brown folder. "I have managed to get some names of all the needy people in my neighbourhood," he said, flipping through documents as he expl…

The United Nations says funding to meet the healthcare needs of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is running dry. Non-profit organisations are trying to fill the gap but as donor fatigue sets in, the refugee population is growing more vulnerable by the day. Al Jaz…

Image: U.S. Army National Guard / Getty Images On Wednesday, presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren introduced the Defense Climate Resiliency and Readiness Act in a Twitter thread and an accompanying Medium post. The thrust of the bill, according to the Medi…

To be an undocumented refugee, these days, is to exist in many places and to not exist at all. It is to have your movements, words, and actions tracked, archived, and multiplied. It is to live between fences, tents, and databasesone new entry per doctors visi…

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) Palestinians on Wednesday marked the 71st anniversary of their mass displacement during the 1948 war around Israel's creation with protests across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Thousands of people streamed to the Gaza-Israel fr…