JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, June 8 (UNHCR) - A year after The Suitcase Stories was launched to coincide with World Refugee Day, the book in which refugee children described their lives before and ...

The IRC and UNICEF warn of dire humanitarian concerns for child refugees. — -- Nearly 450,000 Rohingya refugee children are in urgent need of assistance and the scale of the humanitarian crisis ...

PRETORIA, South Africa, 5 March (UNHCR) - Life for any refugee can be difficult; life for a child refugee is doubly difficult. As one young refugee told the UN refugee agency: "We are always living in ...

Afghan refugees hold placards during their meeting to discuss situation after President Donald Trump paused the U.S. refugee programs, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Anjum ...

The images are stark and omnipresent. Long lines of desperate people trudge through mud. In vast tent cities, barefoot, skinny small boys and girls with huge eyes stare out at us. In bombed out cities ...

After more than two years of civil war in Sudan, the number of Sudanese refugees and Chadian returnees seeking safety in eastern Chad has ballooned to over 975,000, creating a deepening humanitarian ...

SOFIA -- Officials in Sofia had discussed and approved months ago plans to create two shelters to house just 20 refugee children who had ended up in the Bulgarian capital without parents, relatives, ...

Escaping from brutal conditions in some nations of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, the world's r efugee children need specific kinds of support. While they are diverse in terms of their ...

Fifteen children from group homes operated in Lawrence and Topeka by The Villages Inc., have been sent to another facility in New York to comply with a removal order issued by the federal Office of ...

Thousands of Rohingya arrive daily at refugee camps. — -- Thousands of Rohingya people arrive daily at refugee camps in the Cox Bazar district of Bangladesh. The vast majority are women, ...

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Library Associate Chris Siebeneck compiled this month’s selections. There ...