UNHCR leads efforts for homecoming of 10,000 Filipino refugees...

Kenya will consult with the Somalia Government and other key players especially the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to develop modalities for the safe and orderly return and resettlement of Somali refugees, President Uhuru ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has turned over assets to residents of Dougee Community in Grand Gedeh County, which hosted thousands of Ivorian refugees here. At the end of March 2013, the UN refugee agency in ...

JAKARTA — This week the United Nations High Commission for Refugees held talks in Jakarta to try to develop a more coordinated, regional approach to the rising number of boat arrivals and deaths at sea. Government representatives from Afghanistan, ...

Former Australian High Court judge Michael Kirby has been appointed by the United Nations to investigate and report on human rights abuses in North Korea. The three-member commission headed by Mr Kirby will begin work in July and will present its ...

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission Remarks by EU Commissioner Štefan Füle on behalf of HRVP Catherine Ashton on the situation of Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries ...

New disease statistics show rising health risks. BEIRUT: United Nations and Lebanese officials sounded the alarm Thursday over increasing diseases and health problems in Syrian refugee areas that the government and U.N. don't have the resources to ...

The United Nations refugee chief today applauded the approval by the General Assembly of the first-ever treaty to regulate the global arms trade, stressing that it will help to reduce the terrible human cost of this lucrative enterprise. "Refugees ...

The United Nations gave its starkest warning yet on April 5 that it would soon run out of cash to cope with the vast influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan and other neighboring countries. The needs are rising exponentially, and we are broke, Marixie ...

Monrovia - The United Nations refugee agency in Liberia said on Thursday it has halted its voluntary repatriation programme for displaced Ivorians because of growing violence at the countries' volatile border. Liberia hosts more than 62 000 Ivorian ...