WASHINGTON, D.C., United States, August 29 (UNHCR) - A former child refugee from Cambodia, Kalyanee Mam has sought to raise awareness of refugee issues through her work as a lawyer, photographer and ...

The International Rescue Committee report urged the U.S. government to ratchet up its programs to avoid widespread poverty and hardship among newly arrived Iraqis. It said the fed ...

At the outside of the Iraq invasion, a tidal wave of refugees was predicted. It didn't happen right away. But last February, the bombing of a Shiite mosque set off the orgy of deadly sectarian ...

DAMASCUS - UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has visited Iraq and Syria to see first-hand the plight of hundreds of thousands of families uprooted by the ongoing conflict in Iraq. The UN ...

The Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project strives to help Iraqis who are in the legal limbo of waiting for resettlement papers. This series of videos tells the stories of refugees and also shows how ...

Many refugees have decided to try to get to Europe for the sake of their children's future, a refugee from Iraq told BelTA. Refugees have been staying on the Belarus-Poland border for 30 days already.

FILE PHOTO: Iraq's President Barham Salih speaks to members of the media as he casts his vote at a polling station in Baghdad, as Iraqis go to the polls to vote in the parliamentary election, in Iraq, ...

The Department of Bioethics’ Medicine, Society and Culture track will host Nadia El-Shaarawi, assistant professor of global studies at Colby College, for a talk titled “Solving Displacement: Iraqi ...

Before the Iraq war began, the Pentagon was planning for a mass exodus of refugees. When the initial invasion went so fast, that was one of the many predictions that did not come true. Now, after ...

On 20 March 2003, then-president George W Bush instructed the US and coalition forces to invade Iraq in an attempt to topple Saddam Hussein’s regime. The president claimed the dictator was actively ...

Record numbers of people are displaced by conflict and persecution worldwide, and they continue to face extraordinary ...

GENEVA — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has recommended former Iraqi President Barham Salih to become the next head of the U.N. refugee agency, the first nomination from the Middle East in ...