UNHCR

The UN agency has been accused of being a “fig leaf” for the policy of externalisation of EU borders; critics argue that UNHCR action is Libya is uneffective. We asked migrants held in detention centres their opinion.

UN demands action on refugees after 40 killed in Libyan shipwreck.

Italian football club Sampdoria held a training camp for refugees and local children in Uganda to promote sports and peace.

More 70 million people have been forcibly displaced around the world because of war, conflict, and persecution, according to a new report by the UN Refugee Agency. The findings suggest that more people are displaced globally than currently live in all of France.

The UN refugee agency has determined that a Saudi woman who fled her family and refused to leave a Bangkok hotel room is a legitimate refugee, and has asked Australia to consider resettling her.

US seeks to deny asylum to migrants who enter country illegally

Trump's latest move to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council is just one more potentially isolating move.

Ahead of World Refugee Day, the UNHCR unveils its annual report on refugee trends. They say that 68.5 million people were displaced in 2017.

At least two people have been reported shot and wounded in protests over food cuts provoked by UN funding shortages.

UNHCR's Vivian Tan looks at ways of addressing the Rohingya crisis

A scheme to help disabled refugee children resume their lives though sport is taking off in Greece.

Activists say police and soldiers opened fire as refugees protested plans to send them home

They have fled for their lives to a camp for the displaced – escaping the frontline of the fight for Mosul.

The United Nations has suspended all aid convoys in Syria after its trucks were hit during a deadly air raid near Aleppo.

An international aid convoy has been hit by an air strike while delivering aid to 78,000 people in the hard-to-reach town of Urm al-Kubra in Syria.

UN refugee agency rewards Hellenic Rescue Team and psychologist Efi Latsoudi, who helped thousands of migrants reaching Greece.

Iraqi forces meet resistance in an operation to re-take the town of Qayyarah as they move ever closer towards the ISIL stronghold of Mosul

Refugees in Kenya who have fled the fighting in South Sudan are being given a chance to become self sufficient under a new initiative from the government and the UNHCR.

The Mediterranean has seen its most deadly week of 2016 with more than 880 migrants believed to have drowned in shipwrecks off the Libyan…

Born stateless, nowhere they can truely call home. Fifty thousand Syrians have been born without papers in Lebanon according to the United Nations

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, who is also a UN special envoy, visited an office of the UNHCR at the port of Piraeus in Greece, where an estimated

In this week’s edition of Europe Weekly: Rights groups and MEPs criticise a tenative deal between the EU and Turkey on migration; refugees find their

The United Nations and Amnesty International have raised concerns that the EU’s proposed migration deal with Turkey could be illegal. They are