Helping whistleblowers or journalists properly would mean acknowledging systemic failure. It would mean confronting powerful ...

At least 21,807 foreign refugees and asylum seekers who fled violence in neighbouring countries are currently living in ...

GENEVA - UNHCR's top refugee protection official reminded governments Thursday that "refugees are people, not statistics or global trends" and that their protection is "a humanitarian necessity, not a ...

MEXICO CITY, November 17 (UNHCR) - As Latin America's biggest metropolis, sprawling over a huge valley where the ancient Aztecs founded it, Mexico City provided an impressive stage for an event of ...

A new global report warned that the international refugee protection system is drifting away from its core promise of shared responsibility, forcing refugee organizations to fill widening gaps in ...

People granted refugee status will have to wait for three years before bringing relatives including spouses and children to ...

In a recent decision denying asylum to a Salvadoran woman being stalked by gang members, the Board of Immigration Appeals — the highest administrative body for interpreting US immigration law — found ...

The international community has a moral and legal responsibility to protect refugees fleeing religious persecution, according to a report by the United States Commission on International Religious ...

While a full picture for 2020 is yet to be established, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, estimates that global forced displacement surpassed 80 million at mid-year, according to a report on trends in ...

The refugees, many of them from Somalia, had passed security screenings before coming to the United States. The Trump ...

A LEGISLATOR is pushing for the swift passage of a measure aimed at promoting and safeguarding the rights of refugees and ...

MAMAMAYANG Liberal Rep. Leila de Lima has proposed a Comprehensive Refugees and Stateless Persons Protection Act. A former ...