Not long ago a quiet backwater compared to many of its neighbours, Ecuador is now wrestling with a complex humanitarian crisis.

Tunisian police rounded up hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers and left the men, women, and children stranded at the Algerian border, according to the Refugees in Libya NGO, which called it a ...

While people in the northern city of Agadez celebrate the end of a 2015 law, the EU worries about rising migration. But what ...

Peter Yeung writes about his experiences on the perilous Colombia-Panama jungle route that more than half a million migrants ...

Today: Precarious UN work, a key loss and damage board member bows out, and UNRWA’s funding thaw.

Palestinians have begun fleeing eastern Rafah following Israeli evacuation orders issued on 6 May. The orders are seen as a precursor to a long-threatened Israeli ground invasion of the southernmost ...

Under pressure from a drug cartel, communities at the gateway to the Darién Gap have met the needs of migrants by developing ...

After Thai authorities asked UNHCR to find a solution to the Uyghurs’ detention in 2019, the agency decided against “taking ...

Several indicators suggesting Israel is poised to invade Rafah – where some 1.5 million Palestinians (about 65% of Gaza’s population) are sheltering – are blinking red. Israeli military units have ...

The UN-backed Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic has issued an arrest warrant for the country's exiled former president, François Bozizé, over alleged crimes against humanity ...

Every day, hundreds arrive at the Inzargai refugee registration centre in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, after a wave of mass expulsions by the Pakistani government that began last November. Like ...

The UK has begun detaining asylum seekers for deportation to Rwanda following the passage of a highly controversial immigration law last month. The number of people taken into custody so far is ...