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After more than two years of civil war in Sudan, the number of Sudanese refugees and Chadian returnees seeking safety in eastern Chad has ballooned to over 975,000, creating a deepening humanitarian ...

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 ...

Seven years on, the refugee camps are still full. Rohingya futures are still frozen. And the promises from the international community remain, for the most part, unfulfilled. This September, the ...

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 ...

Experts say international cooperation will be essential to preventing a crisis. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is forcing many Ukrainians to leave their homes to seek shelter, with long lines already ...

Ten years after Europe’s refugee crisis brought waves of desperate migrants to its shores, the Greek island of Lesbos is still living with the aftermath. Once the key landing point for people fleeing ...

Last year, more than 82.4 million people — one out of every 95 people on the planet — were living as refugees after fleeing war, violence, persecution, economic turmoil and disaster, according to the ...

WASHINGTON, DC -An immersive art exhibition and documentary screening on Capitol Hill has brought into sharp focus the plight ...

In 2015, with hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and elsewhere marching toward Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said: "We can do it." Ten years have since passed. How much progress has been ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, released a report today showing that more than half – 3.7 million – of the 6 million school-age children under its mandate have no school to go to. Some 1.75 million ...

Displaced people and host communities all over the world are at heightened risk as the coronavirus pandemic spreads. Here are some of the ways they – along with UNHCR staff and supporters – are taking ...