Refugees are in extremely vulnerable circumstances, lacking the protection of their own countries and facing immense challenges to their safety and well-being. The 1951 Refugee Convention, ...

Eight athletes and one guide runner will compete as part of the largest-ever Refugee Paralympic Team (RPT) at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, representing more than 120 million forcibly displaced ...

Israel unleashed an aerial assault and ground invasion on Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp Monday, demolishing homes and schools and killing at least 18 people. The attack came days after a strike on ...

The current crisis comes on top of the 2.2 million Afghan refugees already in neighbouring countries and 3.5 million people forced to flee their homes within Afghanistan's borders. The US-led ...

Hafiz Issak Aroun, a Chadian doctor, had resigned his job at a hospital to set up a clinic in the border town of Adré, treating refugees for free. “We are all volunteers here,” he said ...

The UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) has said it is "deeply concerned" by news that four refugees were returned to Turkey from Kenya. The four were repatriated at the request of the Turkish government ...

At least 12 people were killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Monday night, said a Palestinian official. Mahmoud Basal ...

Human Rights Watch’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Division defends the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, displaced people, and migrants worldwide. We investigate rights violations arising from ...

Refugees are people who have fled war, violence, conflict or persecution and have crossed an international border to find safety in another country. They often have had to flee with little more than ...

Refugees need our solidarity now more than ever. Solidarity means keeping our doors open, celebrating their strengths and achievements, and reflecting on the challenges they face. Solidarity with ...

A refugee is a person who is seeking a safe haven after being forced to flee violence, persecution or war. Refugees are defined and protected in international law. And seeking asylum is not a crime.

The attack on Ein el-Hilweh was the first on Palestinian refugee camps since Israel escalated ... outskirts of the southern port city of Sidon [Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP] Israel has bombed the ...