(VOVworld) - The human misery being endured by refugees has reached a deplorable peak at the overcrowded Idomeni camp on the Greek border with Macedonia, a UN refugee agency spokesman said...
(VOVworld)- After negotiating for 12 hours in Brussels on March 7, EU and Turkish leaders failed to find a solution to the worst migrant crisis since World War II. They...
(VOVworld) – The UNHRC annual meeting opened on Monday in Geneva, Switzerland discussing Syrian crisis, refugees, and response to violent extremism
(VOVworld) – More than one million migrants crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in 2015, nearly half of them Syrians, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said Wednesday
(VOVworld) - More than one million refugees and migrants have reached Europe by sea since the start of 2015, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) says
(VOVworld) - Persecution, political conflict, and poverty have driven one million people to seek safety in Europe in 2015, according to estimates by the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR and the International Organization...
(VOVworld) - Canada will give an extra 75 million USD to the United Nations' refugee agency to help it deal with the Syrian crisis, International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said...
(VOVworld) – Turkey has suggested a two-track plan to tackle the escalating international refugee crisis, including building entirely new cities for displaced people and founding an umbrella organization financed by...
(VOVworld) – The EU has approved a 17-point plan to deal with the wave of refugees flooding into the EU through the Balkan Peninsula
(VOVworld) - Greece has seen a record 48,000 migrants and refugees land on its shores in the past five days, the International Organization for Migration said on Friday
(VOVworld) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees says 700,000 asylum-seekers will reach Europe via the Mediterranean this year and approximately the same number will arrive in 2016
(VOVworld)- Vietnam, Kenya, Portugal, and Uruguay jointly held a seminar on “Investing in children and their families to avoid unnecessary separation” in Geneva, Switzerland
(VOVworld) – Illegal migrants fleeing across the Mediterranean to Europe might get stuck in limbo if European countries apply different policies, the United Nations warned amid EU squabbles over how to...
(VOVworld) – Foreign Ministers of the Arab League gathered in Cairo on Sunday to discuss regional issues including the current crisis of Syrian migrants to Europe
(VOVworld) – The German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday that EU member countries have a long way to go to agree on the number of asylum seekers that...
(VOVworld) – A delegation of UN’s trucks transporting humanitarian aid crossed the Tunisian border on Friday carrying food to 51,000 displaced people in western Libya for distribution
(VOVworld) – The UN Human Rights Council conducted its last discussions of its 28th session in Geneva this week. Participants adopted 34 important resolutions and decisions and 3 President’s statements
(VOVworld)- The United Nations delivered 62 tons of humanitarian aid to Donetsk on Thursday. This includes essential hygiene items, warm clothes, blankets, condensed milk powder, drinking water, and medical supplies procured by the United Nations...
(VOVworld) - At least 29 illegal migrants died from hypothermia on Monday while traveling to Italy on a ship in the southernmost Italian island of Lampedusa, said Italian coast guard commander...
(VOVworld) - Donors have pledged an initial 500.8 million US dollars to fund operations of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to help 43 million forcibly...