TEHRAN, November 10 - Aid groups and humanitarian agencies have warned about “dangerous” plans of repatriation of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees to their home country Myanmar, where they faced unimaginable atrocities at the hands of military.
TEHRAN, October 31 -Ilhan Omar fled civil war in Somalia and spent four years of her childhood in a refugee camp in Kenya. Now she is poised to win a seat in the U.S. Congress, taking on a president who has tried to prevent people like her from coming to America.
TEHRAN, October 17 -A so-called monitoring group says tens of thousands of internally displaced Syrians stranded in a refugee camp in southern Syrian are facing dire conditions as food, water and medical supplies are quickly running out.
TEHRAN, October 14 -At least 22 people, including children, have been killed in incident during which a truck carrying refugees crashed in western Turkey.
TEHRAN, September 02 - Palestinian refugees reacted with dismay on Saturday to a United States decision to halt funding to a U.N. agency, warning that it would lead to more poverty, anger and instability in the Middle East.
TEHRAN, September 01 - Supporters and opponents of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's liberal immigration policy have held rival demonstrations in the city of Chemnitz, where the fatal stabbing of a German man by two refugees sparked violent far-right protests.
TEHRAN, August 31 - Germany says it will sharply boost its funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in a bid to partly compensate for US aid cuts.
TEHRAN, August 29 -A Guatemalan asylum seeker has filed a claim against US authorities for the "wrongful death" of her daughter, who died six weeks after their detention by US immigration police, her attorneys said Tuesday.
TEHRAN, August 28 - African refugees who were rejected by Italy last week said they had been held by smugglers for up to two years in Libya and many had been beaten, tortured and raped, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, August 24 - The European Union has censured Italy’s recent “threats” to suspend its funding to the bloc if Brussels fails to relocate the refugees held on an Italian Coast Guard ship.
TEHRAN, August 15 - The U.N. refugee agency is urging European countries to end a string of impasses over ships carrying rescued migrants and put together a Mediterranean regional arrangement that makes clear where such vessels can dock.
TEHRAN, August 4 - Russia's Defense Ministry has confirmed it sent a letter to Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford last month with a proposal to cooperate on reconstructing Syria and repatriating refugees to the war-torn country.
TEHRAN, July 14 -A White House official who supported higher numbers of refugee admissions to the United States and clashed with immigration hard-liners in the Trump administration left her position on Thursday, two U.S. officials with knowledge of the departure said.
TEHRAN, July 10 - Italian authorities have refused to take in refugees on board an Italian ship, sending a strong signal to allies in the European Union that the new populist government in Rome is determined to force a change in the EU refugee policy.
TEHRAN, July 08 - Italy wants to prevent ships operating for "international missions" from bringing refugees rescued off Libya to Italian ports, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Sunday.
TEHRAN, July 02 -For the second time in a week, Malta has detained a humanitarian vessel that normally rescues boat refugees off the coast of Libya, where two shipwrecks have claimed the lives of as many as 200 people in recent days.