TEHRAN, June 24, YJC - African leaders and donors meeting in Kampala have pledged $358 million to support refugees in Uganda as the country faces the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis. The funding will help meet the needs of the rapidly-surging population of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda.
TEHRAN, June 20, YJC - War and insecurity in many countries, especially Syria, Nigeria, Yemen and South Sudan caused the countries' citizens flee to other parts of the world.
TEHRAN, May 24, YJC - At least 31 refugees have died in an incident where they fell off an overcrowded vessel off the coast of Libya in the Mediterranean Sea.
TEHRAN, May 16, YJC -The Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh has detonated two car bombs at a refugee camp in Syria, close to the country’s border with Jordan, killing at least six people.
TEHRAN, April 26, YJC - Darrin Zammit Lupi, Reuters photographer in Mediterranean Sea, is on a rescue boat recording moments of rescuing migrants at sea.
TEHRAN, April 6, YJC - The overall number of refugees entering Europe from Italy has seen a 40 percent increase compared to last year. As our correspondent Max Civili reports the issue has turned into a serious concern for the Italian government as it looks for collective solutions to the crisis.
Germany is to employ a state-of-the-art voice recognition technology to determine the countries of origin of the refugees coming to the European country without documentation.
Germany is to employ a state-of-the-art voice recognition technology to determine the countries of origin of the refugees coming to the European country without documentation.
More than 20,000 people from Myanmar have flooded into border camps in neighboring China, seeking refuge from bitter fighting between ethnic groups and security forces in the country's north, China said on Thursday.
Every day, thousands of South Sudan refugees pass the border and reach Uganda. War and famine and drought have made life in South Sudan quite difficult.
Some 1.5 million refugees have fled fighting and famine in South Sudan to neighboring countries, half of them to Uganda, and thousands more are leaving daily, the U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday.
Lebanon's President Michel Aoun has urged the international community to facilitate the return of Syrian refugees to their homeland by setting up a series of "safe zones" in coordination with the government in Damascus.
Imposing a temporary travel ban on citizens from seven Muslim countries, President Donald Trump said the move would help protect the United States from terrorism. But less than one-third of Americans believe the move makes them "more safe," according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday.
The British government is placing underprivileged asylum seekers and refugees in rat-infested homes of the most deprived parts of the country, a parliamentary report has revealed.
President Donald Trump on Friday put a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United States and temporarily barred travelers from Syria and six other Muslim-majority countries, saying the moves would help protect Americans from terrorist attacks.
US President Donald Trump plans to sign executive orders to restrict immigration to the country, including demanding the construction of his proposed wall on the US-Mexico border and suspending visas for citizens of Iran and six other Middle Eastern and African countries, at least temporarily.
Authorities in Europe have raised the death toll from the recent cold snap in the continent to at least 73 people, as heavy snow further blankets eastern European countries, where many refugees are living in already poor conditions.
Dozens of pro-refugee activists gathered in Australia's city of Melbourne on Tuesday to protest against the country's policy of detaining refugees at offshore processing centers and to commemorate the man who died recently in one of such centers, local media reported
BEIRUT, Jan 05, 2015 (AFP) - Overwhelmed by a massive influx of desperate refugees , Lebanon began imposing unprecedented visa restrictions on Syrians on Monday, including those fleeing their country's civil war.