World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. It falls each year on June 20 and celebrates the strength and courage of people who ...

On Thursday, laws passed by Israel in October come into effect banning the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, known as UNRWA, ...

Peter's Square. Pope Francis makes his appeal ahead of World Refugee Day, June 20, an annual event organised by the United Nations General Assembly dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of ...

Sheikh's excitement at returning to his homeland from neighbouring Turkey after the fall of Bashar al-Assad has turned to ...

For his crucial work, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922. We must raise our banner in every country and forge the links of brotherhood around the world. The first UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award ...

8 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). World Population Prospects 2022, Online Edition. To better align with the reference date for the refugee ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — In the Shuafat refugee camp, a hardscrabble district ... clinic a block from where her kids were finishing their day at a U.N.-run school.

President Trump’s order to halt most foreign aid has intensified humanitarian crises and raised questions about the United ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — In the Shuafat refugee camp ... her kids were finishing their day at a U.N.-run school. In the absence of municipal services, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees ...