refugees

Hundreds of Syrian refugees in Turkey who survived last week’s earthquakes have started returning to their war-torn homeland after once again losing everything.Turkish authorities have announced the opening of border crossings for…

The EU has announced that it has allocated to Turkey the full six billion euros Ankara sought in return for its hosting of Syrian refugees. After the biggest refugee crisis since World War II in 2015 saw a million people arrive in Europe,…

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has warned of the increasing Covid-19 related needs and vulnerabilities of refugees, internally displaced and stateless people and is concerned that the impacts of the pandemic are also…

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has called on states to urgently release refugees and asylum-seekers who are being unlawfully and arbitrarily held in detention.While making the call on Thursday July, 23, 2020, the Agency said states must…

The government of Denmark has announced $1 million donation to the United Nations World Food Programme to assist refugees in Kampala.While acknowledging the receipt of the fund on Friday July 10, 2020, the WFP stated that the donation…

Source: ReutersBangladesh coastguard has rescued about 400 Rohingya refugees from a boat mishap.Disclosing this on Friday April 17, 2020, Bangladesh coastguard spokesman, Lieutenant Shah Zia Rahman, stated that the boat had been adrift…