UNHCR

For decades, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East has been the subject of controversy. Established almost 74 years ago, UNRWA is one of the oldest U.N. agencies, and among the costliest. It has continued to exist long after Jewish refugees from Arab lands—comparable in number to Palestinian refugees—were resettled and shed their refugee status.

Since her defamation trial against ex-husband Johnny Depp, UN web pages referring to Heard have quietly disappeared.

The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR estimates that about 6.98 million people have left the country since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February.

Russia says it will agree to a humanitarian corridor in a region that's seen heavy fighting. While Ukraine says it has agreed, it remains skeptical.

"We know that we are not even scratching the surface to meet the needs of Ukrainians," says a UN expert. Can Europe handle the 4 million refugees expected?

Inconvenient as the stories of refugees who returned and found themselves detained and tortured in Syria might be to governments eager to move on, they should not be ignored.

Many Afghans are desperately trying to flee their homeland after the Taliban quickly took control of Afghanistan earlier this month.

Kenya's announcement to close the camps came after Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta met with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi to discuss the management of refugees within the camps.

The Biden administration needs to establish with Moscow early on that the U.S. will not allow Russia to exploit the principle of state sovereignty to override international humanitarian law and put millions of Syrians and regional stability at further risk.

Yet another reason to be horrified by the Chinese Communist Party's treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

"Given his state, it was impossible to ask him about his motive, but we imagine that it was the political situation," Geneva police spokesman Silvain Guillaume-Gentil told journalists.

"My brothers and family and the Saudi embassy will be waiting for me in Kuwait," 18-year-old Rahaf al-Qunun warned. "They will kill me."

"If you asked me 20 years ago, I would've laughed. I always say I'll go where I'm needed."

Israel's prime minister suspended a deal with the U.N. refugee agency to resettle African asylum seekers.

Despite thousands of "spontaneous returns" by displaced Syrians, the United Nations doesn't think the country is safe yet.

Serbia's closed borders policy has resulted in increasingly strenuous conditions for refugees.

Addressing the plight of refugees is less onerous than trying to end violent conflicts through more coercive means.

If the 65.3 million people were a single population, it would be the world's 21st largest.

The U.N. refugee agency tells Newsweek that concerns remain with the asylum process in Greece.

Brussels has come under fire from the UNHCR.

George and Amal Clooney meet with Syrian refugee families for the International Rescue Committee, plus videos from UNICEF, the Holocaust Museum and more.

The deal to keep more migrants in Turkey has been agreed in principle.

UNHCR warns of "bottleneck" at the Greece-Macedonia border.

Nearly 400 people have drowned trying to cross from Turkey to Greece by boat this year.

Parliament has reached a majority in favor of refusing asylum to those who commit crimes.

Malala Yousafzai welcomed Syrian fellow schoolgirl-activist Muzoon Almellehan.

The latest estimates include 20.2 million refugees fleeing wars and persecution.

The new figure follows the government's November pledge to resettle 25,000 refugees.

The UNHCR and Council of Europe step in after Hungary launches a national anti-refugee advertising campaign.

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