refugees

Rohingyas at the Coxs Bazar camp. File Photo: TBS
World+Biz

UNHCR-Ipsos survey shows enduring public support for refugees

More than 120 million people were forcibly displaced globally by May 2024

At the first panel discussion of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum held in Antalya, Türkiye on Saturday, Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud spoke on global climate change, climate migrant and climate refugee issues. Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

FM Hasan for new definition of 'refugee' including 'climate migrants'

FILE PHOTO: Swiss State Secretary for Migration Christine Schraner Burgener addresses the assembly on the opening day of the Global Refugee Forum, in Geneva, Switzerland, December 13, 2023. Jean-Guy Python/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
World+Biz

More than $2.2 billion promised for global refugee crisis at UN forum

FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Rohingya Crisis

UN calls for urgent int'l funding for Rohingyas after securing only 42% of $875.9 million needed

FILE PHOTO: People wait to seek help from the FCJ Refugee Center, which provides essential assistance for refugee claimants in Toronto, Canada, August 7, 2023. REUTERS/Wa Lone/File Photo
World+Biz

Canada shut its land border to asylum seekers. More refugees came anyway

Sudanese refugees who fled the violence in Sudan's Darfur region and newly arrived ride their donkeys looking for space to temporarily settle, near the border between Sudan and Chad in Goungour, Chad May 8, 2023. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo
World+Biz

More than $3 bn needed for aid in Sudan, Sudanese refugees: UN

Ukrainian refugee Tamila Melnichenko, 82, from Kyiv, looks through a window as she pedals a small training bicycle during a rehabilitation session at the Armada retirement home in Glogoczow, Poland February 10, 2023. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
World+Biz

A year into Ukraine war, older refugees running out of hope

Photo: Bloomberg
Global Economy

WFP cuts refugee food rations as global hunger situation worsens

Photo: Courtesy
Bangladesh

UNHCR and partners call for sustained funding and support for Rohingya refugees

Photo: Collected
World+Biz

BJP turns spotlight on 1979 killings of refugees in Bengal

Haitian migrants who have just arrived after US authorities flew them out of a Texas border city on Sunday where thousands of mostly Haitians had gathered under a bridge after crossing the Rio Grande river from Mexico, hire moto taxis after leaving the airport, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti September 19, 2021. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol
World+Biz

UN concerned at US pushbacks of migrants who may need asylum

Head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Josef Schuster speaks during a news conference in Munich, Germany, October 29, 2019. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert/File Photo
Europe

Germany passes law to give descendants of Nazi-era refugees citizenship

Cate Blanchett. Photo: Collected
Glitz

Cate Blanchett sees pandemic as chance for reflection on plight of refugees