By Mandy Clark London 08 October 2007 The fate of hundreds of refugees from Sudan's Darfur region may well hinge on what happens in Britain's House of Lords. The highest court in Britain is deciding whether it is safe to return Darfuri asylum seekers...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 01 October 2007 This year's winner of the Nansen Refugee Award is appealing to governments to treat asylum seekers and refugees with compassion and to seek humane alternatives to detention. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refug...
By Kane Farabaugh New York 20 September 2007 Government corruption and control of the diamond industry fueled the civil war that erupted in Sierra Leone in 1991. By the end of the decade, fighting had spread throughout the African country and includ...
By Kane Farabaugh Utica, New York 05 September 2007 The exodus of minority populations in Burma is the largest migration of people in Southeast Asia. An estimated 160,000 live in nine refugee camps in Thailand. There, they wait for resettlement in a...
By Kane Farabaugh Utica, New York 27 August 2007 The loss of manufacturing jobs in the northeastern U.S. state of New York led to an economic decline in the 1970s. But war in Vietnam, and two decades later in the Balkans, as well as continued strife...
By Malcolm Webb Nairobi 23 August 2007 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says many of the 10,000 Congolese refugees, who fled to neighboring Uganda Tuesday, have returned to their homes. The exodus from villages in the North Kivu prov...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 19 August 2007 Uganda The UN refugee agency says more Sudanese refugees in Uganda are voluntarily returning to their homes in South Sudan following the withdrawal of the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, from the...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 14 August 2007 The World Food Program and U.N. refugee agency are appealing for $20 million to help tens of thousands of Burundi refugees return home after years of exile in Tanzania. They warn that food rations for Burundians...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 05 August 2007 A recent photo from files of UNHCR-built tent-camp for Palestinians in Iraq, near Syrian border The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says Syria has allowed four seriously ill young Palestinians to en...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 19 April 2007 The U.N. refugee agency says it has sent medical and relief supplies to a small Somali town near the Kenyan border, the destination of many people fleeing violence and instability in Somalia. Cathy Majtenyi rep...