Military conscription of refugees by a host state is inconsistent with host countries' primary responsibility to ensure the ...

The second round of a vaccination campaign to protect 640,000 children in Gaza against polio will also deliver micronutrients ...

The U.N. refugee agency is scaling back its presence in Sri Lanka, and has therefore stopped aid payments to refugees living ...

The lethal combination of hunger, displacement and disease outbreaks in Sudan is creating "a perfect storm" for a ...

The government has been urged to walk its talk on support for refugees by ratifying the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. Human ...

This includes attempts of justifying killing of staff by labeling them operatives of armed groups like Hamas,’ says Philippe ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Relentless violence has devastated Sudan and large-scale fighting has escalated in and around the only ...

Germany plans to nominate foreign affairs and development veteran Niels Annen for the post of UN High Commissioner for Refugees, sources close to the government told AFP on Monday.

The detention of asylum seekers around the world is harmful and contrary to their fundamental right to seek protection – which is why the practice should stop – the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on W ...

The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said six staffers were killed in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday, ...

Ibrahim Yusif grew up near the city of El Geneina in Darfur in western Sudan. One of five brothers and three sisters, he ...

Rights groups have raised concerns after the UN apparently approved a plan that would return 30,000 Syrian refugees from ...