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The Standard launches partnership with Comic Relief to help refugees and homelessness

Refugees and the homeless are London’s two most disadvantaged groups. Our winter appeal, in collaboration with Comic Relief - which has pledged £500,000 to get us started - aims to help them

‘There is a lot of sanitisation of what immigration detention means, but the reality … has a devastating and generational impact on people and their families and communities.’

Immigration minister Marc Miller’s comments come as country braces for migrant rise when Trump takes office

Auerbach came to England in 1939 as a child refugee after fleeing from Nazi Germany.

Climate hazards helping to double the number of displaced people to 120 million, UNHCR reports.

Climate change is contributing to record numbers of people being uprooted from their homes globally, while worsening the often already "hellish" conditions of displacement, the United Nations said Tuesday.

Refugees detained offshore by Australia were 20 times more likely to develop PTSD compared with those detained onshore for less than six months, a study found.

Every year millions of people leave their home countries to seek safety elsewhere. Refugees escape persecution, subvert international borders and sometimes cross oceans to seek safety. They then face a gruelling asylum adjudication system which determines whether they will receive support.

Makomborero Haruzivishe was nearly killed before he fled his home country two years ago, and is now studying law and politics in Kent.

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians refugees have returned to their country since Israel launched a massive aerial bombardment on wide swathes of Lebanon in September