Syrian children play in the heavily damaged Baba Amr neighbourhood following the return of their families to the central Syrian city of Homs on February 10, 2025 [Louai Beshara/AFP] New data from the ...

GENEVA, October 18 (UNHCR) - Industrialized countries saw a 17 per cent increase in asylum applications in the first half of this year, with most claimants coming from countries with long-standing ...

The U.N. refugee agency says that governments around the world are increasingly undermining the global convention on refugees ...

The wars in Syria and Iraq, as well as armed conflicts, human rights violations and deteriorating security and humanitarian conditions in other countries, pushed the number of asylum applications in ...

The significant decline in overall asylum claims was due to the massive reduction in applications from Syrians seeking protection. In the first half of 2025, applications seeking asylum in the ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Bowing to pressure to reform the refugee convention and asylum system would be a "catastrophic error", the ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has urged Pakistan to stop deporting vulnerable Afghan asylum seekers and to ensure they are granted international protection, as tensions ...

The head of the U.N. refugee agency suggested Monday that President Donald Trump’s America has carried out deportation ...

Applications to lead the UN refugee agency close Monday, with Poland’s Sejm speaker Szymon Hołownia joining candidates ...

The top court expressed concern over the UN agency's practice of issuing such cards in the country, amid growing judicial concern over the operations of international bodies in India.

Refugee offices are still not processing new applications unless immigrants have a transit visa, despite a court ruling that this is unconstitutional ...

The civil servants are allowed to work as many as three in five days away from their desks, despite being responsible for ...