DHAKA: Bangladesh warned on Tuesday of the deteriorating humanitarian crisis at its refugee camps hosting some 1 million Rohingya, as global aid for the oppressed stateless minority has sharply declined this year. The Joint Response Plan, the annual UN fundraising plan by international agencies, was among
Geneva: As the number of refugees soars worldwide, the United Nations is appealing for countries to support displaced people at a global summit this week with the aim of showing that "change is possible". The UN is convening the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva with thousands
LONDON: The UK faces a fresh crisis in its asylum system, with 50,000 refugees facing homelessness by the end of the year. The government has pledged to reduce a backlog of “legacy” asylum applications by the end of 2023, but is reducing support for refugees whose
GENEVA: Over 88,000 people have crossed into Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh and the total could reach 120,000, said a U.N. refugee agency official , a figure matching estimates of the entire population of the breakaway region recaptured by Azerbaijan last week. Kavita Belani, UNHCR representative in Armenia,
CHICAGO: The head of one of the world’s leading aid organizations told religious leaders at a gathering in Chicago this week that they were “not doing enough” to raise public awareness of the globe’s growing refugee crisis. Dr. Zaher Sahloul, president and founder of MedGlobal, which
London: Amnesty International UK has written to the House of Lords urging its members to reject a bill on illegal immigration which it slammed as “racist and xenophobic.” The letter was sent ahead of the second reading of the bill on Wednesday. The organization’s UK chief executive
Berlin: Rayyan Alshebl made his first contact with Germany in 2009, watching Bayern Munich football matches on television in Syria. A few years later, he would seek refuge there after civil war in his home country forced him to flee. Today, he is not only a
Madrid: Spanish police said that they arrested a criminal gang that targeted the homes of refugees who had fled the war in Ukraine and stole items worth more than 1 million euros. The 10 suspects “had specialized in this type of victim since they usually bring
Dhaka: The UN’s decision to slash food aid to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh would have catastrophic consequences, experts warned, as the World Food Program plans to reduce rations from next month. Bangladesh hosts more than 1.2 million Rohingya Muslims, most of whom escaped deadly violence and
Warsaw: Months after Russian forces occupied southern Ukraine’s Kherson province last year, they started paying visits to the home of a Ukrainian woman and her Russian husband. They smashed their refrigerator and demanded possession of their car. One day, they seized the wife and her teenage