UNHCR Dismisses Claims By Liberian Refugees In Ghana
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN Refugee Agency, has clarified recent claims by some Liberian refugees ...
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Germany’s Ambivalence Over Refugees Hit Big Screens
The biggest grossing German movie last year was a fizzy feel-good summer comedy about the country's refugee influx, "Welcome to ...
Afghan Charged Over Smuggling Asylum-Seekers To Australia
An Afghan man who reportedly made millions of dollars smuggling asylum-seekers to Australia by boat has been extradited from Indonesia ...
France To Boost Refugee Aid, Deport Economic Migrants
France will cut processing time for asylum requests and boost housing for refugees while "systematically" deporting illegal economic migrants, Prime ...
Ghanaian Woman In South Africa Marches For Refugee Rights
A Ghanaian refugee in South Africa marched in a group with other refugees to the office of the UN High ...
World Refugee Day Takes On New Meaning In Ghana
The UN High Commission of Refugees today , June 20, 2017, released the world’s first satellite for distance learning, to ...
SA and UNHCR To Mark World Refugees Day With Tolerance Exercises
The Department of Home Affairs and United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNHCR) have announced that they will jointly commemorate ...
UN Refugee Chief Urges Libya To Free Refugees and Asylum Seekers
The head of the United Nations refugee agency on Sunday urged Libyan authorities to free all asylum seekers and refugees ...
Australia Declares Game-Up For ‘fake Refugees’
Australia Sunday gave 7,500 boatpeople until October to prove they are genuine refugees or be kicked out, declaring the "game ...
Hong Kong ‘Snowden Refugees’ Face Deportation
A group of refugees who sheltered fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong are facing deportation after the city's authorities ...
Japan Tough To Crack For Refugees
It has been a decade since Liliane last saw her little girl. She fled Africa in fear for her life, ...
PNG To Investigate ‘drunk Rampage’ At Australia Refugee Camp
Drunk soldiers "went on a rampage" and fired shots in the air at an Australian asylum-seeker camp in Papua New ...
Pakistan Resumes Repatriating Afghan Refugees Despite Criticism
Pakistan Monday resumed its mass repatriation of Afghan refugees despite past accusations of coercion in the supposedly voluntary UN programme ...
Border Jumper From US Found With Severe Hypothermia In Canada
An Ivory Coast migrant was found suffering from severe hypothermia and near death after jumping the border from the United ...
The ‘robot Lawyer’ Giving Free Legal Advice To Refugees
A technology initially used to fight traffic fines is now helping refugees with legal claims. When Joshua Browder developed DoNotPay ...
Refugees Make Up Bulk of Crossings From US To Canada
Most of the hundreds of people streaming over the US border into Canada in recent weeks are asylum-seekers, coming from ...
Afghan Deportation Flight Left From Germany Half Empty
The German government admitted Friday it deported fewer than half the Afghans who were due to be repatriated on a ...
Cameroon ‘expels’ Nigerians
Most of the refugees are at the Minawao camp in north-eastern Cameroon Cameroon has expelled 517 Nigerians, including 313 asylum ...
Ai Weiwei Films Global Crisis
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has a message for US President Donald Trump, Europe's populist right and those who would ...
US To Give Uganda $25 Mn In Aid For Refugees
The United States will give over $25 million in humanitarian aid to Uganda, to help the nation cope with a ...