We are marking this year’s World Refugee Day against a backdrop of a dramatic global crisis. Not only are record numbers of people forced to flee their homes, but the world is grappling with COVID-19, ...

On June 20 we recognized World Refugee Day – a day set aside every year to remember vulnerable people who have fled their country out of fear of further persecution if they were to return. Who are the ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has partnered with Twitter and young Ivorian artist O’Plérou Grebet – known professionally as 'O'Plérou' – for the launch of the 2020 World Refugee Day emoji. The emoji, ...

The Rohingya are a stateless minority facing ongoing persecution and violence in Myanmar. Violence against the Rohingya erupted in 2017, forcing over 700,000 to flee to Bangladesh. Now, more than 1.1 ...

_____Trauma among refugees at the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Kyangwali subcounty, Kikuube district, has reached crisis levels. This is according to settlement administrators and development ...

Ultimately, restoring sustainable peace in Afghanistan is the only durable solution to the plight of its refugees. But there is much that can be done to work toward that goal and help people now.

A massacre in the Sudanese town of El Fasher has worsened the refugee crisis in South Sudan as more people escape the war in Sudan, according to Christian Aid. Media reports and satellite imagery ...

The psychology of fear, blame and scarcity keeps us from solving the crisis of displaced people. By Viet Thanh Nguyen Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. This personal reflection is ...

Associate Professor Phi Vân Nguyen is a historian in the Department of Social Science and Humanities at the Université de Saint-Boniface in Winnipeg, Canada. Her research examines war, migration, and ...

Three years ago, when Kabul fell to the Taliban and thousands of Afghans, many having served alongside American service members for nearly 20 years, were forced to flee for their safety, the United ...