refugee

One year after the federal government closed Roxham Road, refugee claims in Canada continue to increase: there were 143,785 in 2023 compared to 91,730 in 2022. The surprise announcement in March 2023 to modify Canada’s Safe Third…

Late last week, a boat crammed with Rohingya refugees fleeing a squalid camp in Bangladesh capsized off the coast of Indonesia. Around 75 people were rescued, including nine children, but more than 70 are missing and presumed dead.…

1. IntroductionRefugee mothers are vulnerable to cultural stereotyping and socioeconomic hardships when they migrate to a new country . This vulnerability often has a negative impact on refugee mothers’ breastfeeding practices, related…

1. IntroductionAccording to the International Organization for Migration, the global population of international migrants reached nearly 281 million people in 2020, accounting for approximately 3.6% of the world’s population . The…

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, is launching today an innovative action plan to expand employment opportunities for refugees. The document not only identifies the…

Nearly 8,600 people on the move died in 2023, a 20 per cent increase from 2022, according to the UN agency’s Missing Migrants Project online platform. It details the global movement of people risking their lives to escape conflict,…

1. IntroductionIn 2023, 36.4 million refugees worldwide fled their home countries in search of protection . Refugee children and adolescents make up a considerable group; their life trajectories are marked by pre-migratory stressors of…

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1. IntroductionResearch shows that in many high-income countries, including Canada, recent migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are at an increased risk of being undervaccinated . In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, early…

Seattle City Councilmember Cathy Moore (District 5), chair of the Housing and Human Services Committee, spoke with a group of Venezuelan refugees after they attended yesterday’s Council meeting. During that meeting, dozens of…

Mizoram, India – “Why are you screaming? You are a refugee,” a nurse told 26-year-old Jamie* as she struggled with an exceptionally painful childbirth at a hospital in India’s northeastern state of Mizoram. A few hours later, amid her…

Speaking at the closing of the Global Refugee Forum, the Secretary-General said that protection and help for these most vulnerable of people, was “an obligation shared by all of humanity”. He was speaking after three days of intensive…

The world’s largest gathering dedicated to refugee issues, the Forum is co-hosted by UNHCR and Switzerland and convened by Colombia, France, Japan, Jordan and Uganda.It brings together Member States, civil society, financial…

Abdullahi Mire grew up in the sprawling Dadaab refugee complex in northeastern Kenya with its population today of more than 240,000 registered refugees, mostly from Somalia.The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) coordinates operations there…

When COVID-19 hit Southwest Kansas in the spring of 2020, there was little information available about the disease in languages other than English. Many essential workers from refugee communities turned to their neighbors, Physician…

New York, Oct. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Over the past week, tens of thousands of Armenians finally concluded a long and arduous trip out of Nagorno-Karabakh to begin another journey in Armenia.  That road begins in the town of…

Why is the refugee crisis all over the news? How is this related to Syria? Why should we care at all? Donate to the United Nations Refugee Agency:#_ga= Syria / Iraq video: by Epic Mountain Music: used for this video: economist, Time…

This is our improved application for Spoken Word for the World poem was inspired after watching the statement and poem made by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner at the UN climate leaders summit of 2014. We watched it during a climate change class we…

Women and girls comprise about half of any refugee, internally displaced or stateless population. In many societies, they face specific risks and are less likely than men and boys to have access to their rights. Exposed from the protection…

United Nations Foundation Senior Malaria Advisor Kevin Starace talks about his experiences seeing refugee camps in Africa. Malaria is the number one cause of death and illness among refugees living in Africa. Bed nets are the best and most…