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James was speaking at the launch of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) Refugees For Climate Action group.

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.

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

Cyprus has seen a gradual rise in arrivals of migrants and refugees since 2013, mostly due to geopolitical tensions and conflicts in the Middle East. The island’s migration crisis is also a consequence of its fraught history since the 1974 war, which has defeated attempts at mediation for decades. In…

Ministry says 589 women and at least 185 children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon over past 13 months.

Human traffickers left dozens of Rohingya refugees, including children, stranded on a shoreline in westernmost Indonesia on Thursday, while six dead bodies were found nearby, local officials said.

Israeli bombardment of Lebanon forced Mohammed Fawaz and his family to flee so often that they finally moved many kilometres (miles) away to find respite in central Iraq.

Israeli strikes on Lebanon-Syria border crossings disrupt refugee flow and humanitarian aid, raising concerns over worsening humanitarian crisis.

A stream of refugees fleeing Lebanon to Syria have been crossing a narrow makeshift bridge in the Qusair area of Syria’s Homs province since the official border crossing was put out of commission by an Israeli strike two days earlier

140 Rohingya Muslims stranded on boat off Aceh coast, facing refusal to disembark. UNHCR and local community providing assistance. Rohingya face discrimina...