GENEVA - UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers today urged European justice and home affairs ministers to reaffirm the European Union's commitment to refugee protection, both within the EU ...

EU leaders are discussing how to handle a potential renewed wave of refugees from Ukraine in the face of uncertainty in U.S. policy and Russia's ongoing offensives, Politico reported on March 5.

The European Union is hammering out the terms of new policies to harden its borders as the political uprising in Iran raises ...

With Russia's war in Ukraine in its fourth year, the number of Ukrainians heading to Europe to seek asylum appears to be in decline. Currently, the EU hosts over 4.3 million Ukrainian refugees, with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ylva Johansson, former European Commissioner for Home Affairs, will serve as the European Union's new special envoy for Ukrainians ...

Lebanon said on Wednesday it wanted to follow the example of eastern EU states that have largely rejected refugees as a way of resolving its own refugee crisis. Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil ...

Few issues arouse such strong passions as immigration, where concrete economic and social challenges overlap with the fundamental concept of national identity. It is thus not surprising that Europe is ...

It took Hagos Hadgu 11 traumatic months to travel from Eritrea to his new temporary home in a refugee camp in Sweden. Along the way, he made deals with smugglers, was held captive by terrorists and ...

As a new year begins, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling on Portugal and Slovenia to harness their 2021 European Union (EU) Presidencies and negotiations on the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum ...

Resettlement is a lifeline for some of the world's most at-risk refugees. It involves selecting and transferring recognised refugees from the country where they have sought protection to another ...