Protecting refugees is the core mandate of UNHCR. This booklet answers some of the most commonly asked questions about refugees themselves and how the agency attempts to help them. Who, for instance, ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Their family spent years opposing Venezuela’s socialist system. The government retaliated by sending men to beat the father, a state oil company worker whom it accused of being ...

To mark World Refugee Day on June 20, Reuters reporters invited refugees to put their questions to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Here are some of those questions and the ...

A new international refugee crisis may emerge from the Iran war. The humanitarian consequences of the Iran war will likely be felt throughout the Middle East—and beyond.

March 5, 2025 Updated Wed., March 5, 2025 at 8:31 p.m. Refugee resettlement agencies and refugee families, including Lutheran Community Services Northwest, and lawyers hold a press conference outside ...

As Americans digest a daily deluge of headlines about the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and now the war in Iran, the CEO of a global refugee resettlement network wants to ensure ...

When President Trump announced his provocative proposal to relocate Palestinians while Gaza is cleared of hazards and rebuilt, he put the fate of the war-torn territory’s nearly two million residents ...

A lack of transparency and breach of trust was on the mind of many as the Rutland City Board of Aldermen was given its first chance to question two refugee resettlement representatives. “I'm going to ...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - When Hungarian film-maker Kornel Mundruczo reviewed a screenplay in 2014 about the adventures of a Syrian refugee boy in Budapest, the first page carried the notation "some time ...

The Rutland Town Select Board won t allow a refugee resettlement petition on the August ballot. The board voted unanimously to bar a vote regarding former selectman Don Chioffi s request to delay the ...