Governments responded by drawing up a set of international agreements to provide travel documents for these people who were, effectively, the first recognized refugees of the 20th century. Their ...

The organization's work has expanded since 2012, when it started helping Burmese refugees as EMBARC. The expansion since is reflected in the ethnic heritage of staff sitting around a table with ...

What was the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration? Why was it created? How were migrants from Greece selected?

Now, weeks later, a number of the organization’s 31 staff members — many of them former refugees — were furloughed ... of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) also left ...

In September 2024, an organization called Thrive International helped bring roughly 200 asylum seekers and refugees to the Tacoma hotel after they’d lived unhoused in a large encampment in Kent.

In 2017, UNHCR operated on a budget of almost 220 million dollars for 1.4 million refugees in Uganda alone, according to a 2024 policy brief published by the Egmont Royal Institute for International ...

The United States has a long tradition of offering refuge to those fleeing persecution and war. In 2015, the International Rescue Committee helped resettle nearly 10,000 newly arrived refugees and ...

Channel 11 News spoke with a local organization that told us decisions in Washington have placed a target on refugees’ livelihood and safety. “We have never seen any administration cut funding ...

(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A humanitarian organization that helps refugees in Chicago is asking for donations and volunteers after it was given a stop-work order last week. As part of the order ...