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The United Nations said Wednesday it was launching a new Climate Resilience Fund aimed at boosting protections for "refugees and displaced communities" threatened by climate change.

Legal and logistic battles await the UK government’s untested asylum plan now that is has reached the parliamentary finishing line

With a heavy focus on deterrence, the agreement shows how far Europe’s centre has shifted to the right, says author Daniel Trilling

Some people in Ambelia camp waiting for treatment to wounds resulting from ethnic violence last year

The EU parliament on Wednesday adopted a contentious reform of Europe's asylum policies that will harden border procedures and force all the bloc's 27 nations to share responsibility.

Supreme court of British Indian Ocean Territory rules in favour of Tamil asylum seekers on island

Of the 300,000 refugees who have fled to Cameroon from the Central African Republic, most arrived with painful memories of their lives in the CAR. But displacement has added to their trauma, say those living in the Gado-Badgere refugee camp. Rife sexual violence and poor living conditions have left many…

Economic crisis has driven Warao communities from their traditional life in lush forest to a Brazilian slum

Dozens of Rohingya refugees saved after their boat capsized off Indonesia's westernmost coast last week have been forced from their temporary shelter due to local protests, a United Nations refugee agency official said Wednesday.

Fears of a new migration route grow as more than 800 people land on Gavdos, population fewer than 70, in a few months

As New Delhi claims to help persecuted minorities in South Asia, mainly Muslim refugees from Myanmar face deportation.