GENEVA, Dec. 14 (UNHCR) - After an unprecedented global recommitment to the principles of the 1951 Refugee Convention, work will now move forward on an Agenda for Protection to strengthen help for ...

Geneva, Switzerland, December 11, 2023 — The last GRF in 2019 garnered more than 1,400 pledges and initiatives intended to help reach the objectives set out in the Global Compact on Refugees including ...

GENEVA - UNHCR's top refugee protection official reminded governments Thursday that "refugees are people, not statistics or global trends" and that their protection is "a humanitarian necessity, not a ...

The sudden escalation of fighting in Syria, as armed groups make serious advancements, carries an important lesson about refugee protection. For the past several years, governments in Europe and the ...

American leaders of all political stripes lament the nation’s broken asylum system, but they also fall lockstep into short-sighted, reactive fixes that don’t solve the underlying problem: an outdated ...

Responsibility for refugee protection should not rest solely with the government, according to participants in the Korea Refugee Forum, held at ...

New report recognises some improvements in the last few years but says the basic problem - the lack of a clear, integrated policy – persists Refugees and migrants wait to board buses outside Kara Tepe ...

Refugee resettlement involves the selection and transfer of recognised refugees from the country they have sought protection to a third country that has agreed to admit them with permanent residence ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — The Montana State University Women's Center will host a lecture on Tuesday about refugee protection. Erin Corcoran will give the Shannon Weatherly Memorial Lecture. Corcoran graduated ...

On World Refugee Day, this leadership panel will highlight current trends and models of how higher education is supporting refugee welcome and inclusion, and thereby contributing to national refugee ...

The author, Zakra Noor, is a lawyer and recent graduate of Bahria University, located in Islamabad, Pakistan. Globally, thousands and millions of people flee their homes due to persecution, conflict, ...

Bill C-12 includes many changes around border security along with new ineligibility rules for refugee claimants ...