GENEVA, Jan 22 (UNHCR) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers today called on women to do more to influence "political priorities", urging them to speak out against political agendas that do ...

An American human rights group documenting widespread sexual violence against Darfuri women in Sudan and Chad has called for "vigorous prosecution of rape as a war crime." Physicians for Human Rights, ...

When Deborah was subjected to domestic violence, she told no one. Within her community of refugees from Myanmar, living in Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, violence against women in the home was ...

A UNFPA community center led by Rohingya women in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2025. Credit: Crisis Group/Margarite Clarey Eight years after a violent crackdown by the ...

Millions of “the least of our sisters and brothers” will now suffer because of what we fail to do. Our indifference, when we ...

30% of health services in Za’atari have shut down in recent years due to funding shortfalls. The IRC’s clinic is now one of the few remaining facilities still able to provide lifesaving care. 1 in 4 ...

The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 ...

Unemployed and hit by rising fuel and electricity prices, some Syrian refugees in Jordan are making a painful choice: moving to the refugee camps they thought they had left behind.

The spokesperson for the General Coordination for Displaced Persons and Refugee Camps in Darfur, Adam Rijal, said that more ...

One day, while I was in the Greek refugee camp of Malakasa as a volunteer, a woman drove up to the camp with a car full of apples from her orchard. The Greek volunteers went out to meet her, and after ...

Survivors of the bloody takeover of El-Fasher walked for days through the desert, past bodies and armed men who humiliated ...