On July 15, 1994, an unprecedented 250,000 Rwandan refugees crossed from Gisenyi (now Rubavu) into Goma, in what was then Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo--DRC).

Late in the afternoon of July 15, Mike Waltz, Trump’s nominee for US ambassador to the United Nations, held a hearing. Waltz pledged to exercise his veto power against UN resolutions against Israel ...

A U.N. official says the pace and scale of Afghans returning from Iran are overwhelming already fragile support systems.

The United Nations has warned of Afghanistan’s worsening humanitarian crisis as tens of thousands of Afghans are being deported daily, many of them from Iran following its war with Israel.“The sheer ...

Eid Ul Fitr, while visiting Rohingya camps in Bangladesh being accompanied by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Muhammad ...

“And access to reliable information is fundamental for refugees. In emergencies, it can be lifesaving.” The risks are particularly high ahead of elections. In late 2023, the run up to national ...

Rocío Ramos looks from a doorway in her home on May 19 in Tijuana. The El Salvadorian family had planned to seek asylum in ...

Greece has declared a three-month halt to all asylum applications for migrants arriving from North Africa. The European Union ...

The head of UNRWA said Friday that Gaza has "become the graveyard of children" and "starving people" amid the ongoing war ...

Several children were killed in an Israeli airstrike at a water distribution point in central Gaza Sunday, health officials ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced the distribution of multi-purpose cash assistance to ...

The UNHCR is concerned about the mass return of Afghan refugees from Iran and Pakistan, with Afghanistan unable to handle ...