Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Borders: closed. Anton Petrus/Moment via Getty Refugees haven’t been welcome in the United States since the first day of President ...

There are more refugees in the world today than any time since World War II. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that by the end of 2015 there will be 60 million displaced ...

The number of people forcibly displaced from their homes is the highest since World War II. According to a new report from the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, 65.6 million people are currently ...

In February, President Donald Trump issued an executive order allowing U.S. resettlement of white Afrikaner refugees from South Africa, citing "racially discriminatory property confiscation." Trump ...

Each year, World Refugee Day is celebrated around the globe: uplifting refugee voices, highlighting their contributions, and raising advocacy needs. This year, the IRC Atlanta hosted our second World ...

Data from UNHCR’s annual Global Trends report, released today, shows that almost 70.8 million people are now forcibly displaced. To put this in perspective, this is double the level of 20 years ago, 2 ...

The story of a resident of Buffalo, New York, Nurul Amin Shah Alam, represents yet another profound systemic failure in our nation’s treatment of immigrants and refugees. Shah Alam, an almost blind, ...

Displaced individuals face significant health care access challenges, particularly for noncommunicable diseases. For these individuals, cancer control remains a severely neglected aspect of health ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBNW) — Following the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a partially blind refugee who was found dead in Buffalo five days after Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a Tim Hortons in ...