(VOVWORLD) -The head of the UN refugee agency Filippo Grandi said Sunday that he hopes peace will prevail in Ukraine, with more than 4.8 million Ukrainians having fled their...
(VOVWORLD) - A delegation from the office of the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has visited the logistics center on the Belarusian...
(VOVWORLD) - The UN on Wednesday urged Libya and EU countries to act to protect migrants making dangerous crossings of the Mediterranean Sea, saying they are losing their human rights, their dignity...
(VOVWORLD) - The European Union on Wednesday unveiled new policies on migration and refugees, aiming to increase member state contributions
(VOVWORLD) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees urged for a 621-million-USD fund on Friday to support countries in southern Africa and the Great Lakes region which are hosting...
(VOVWORLD) - Greece will shut down overcrowded refugee camps on islands facing Turkey and replace them with new closed facilities with a capacity of at least 5,000 people each
(VOVWORLD) -The United Nations refugee agency said on Friday a US Supreme Court order curbing asylum applications at the Mexican border could hurt people fleeing violence and persecution who are...
(VOVWORLD) - UN refugee and migrant chiefs said in a joint statement on Friday that 5,600 refugees and migrants currently held in centers across Libya should be freed in an...
(VOVWORLD) - The number of refugees and migrants from Venezuela worldwide now stands at 3.4 million, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), announced Friday
(VOVWORLD) - Conditions in Myanmar’s Rakhine state are still not stable enough for the safe, voluntary return of Rohingya refugees to their home, Secretary General Antonio Guterres told a UN...
(VOVWORLD) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte have agreed on the need to beef up Frontex and the EU's external border police
(VOVWORLD) - The EU says it will disburse a further 3 billion euros for Turkey to curb the flow of migrants coming to Europe
(VOVWORLD) - European Union countries on Tuesday began sending migrants who arrived over the last 5 months via Greece back to Greece to have their asylum applications assessed
(VOVWORLD) - The European Commission (EC) has decided to provide nearly 13 million USD to help save the lives of conflict-affected people in South Sudan
(VOVworld) – Italy is worried of recent increasing number of migrants massing through its oceans
(VOVworld) – The European Union Monday launched the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) program to issue monthly electronic cash to a million refugees in Turkey, as part of a deal under...
(VOVworld) – World leaders on Monday adopted the New York Declaration at the United Nations Summit on Refugees and Migrants, including commitments to deploy a comprehensive plan to resolve the current...
(VOVworld) - Europe is close to its limit on accepting refugees, EU President Donald Tusk said Sunday at a press conference on the sidelines of G20 summit in Hangzhou, China
(VOVworld) - UN envoy for human right Francois Crepeau criticizes EU's response to the refugee crisis as showing a ‘lack of vision’, operating under legal ambiguity, and backing the detention...
(VOVworld) – The US offered its backing for a NATO naval operation off the Libyan coast in support of an Italian plan to close the Western Mediterranean refugee route to Europe