The UN refugee agency announced Tuesday that its Nansen Refugee Award will go to the late Senator Edward Kennedy for his achievements as an unparalleled champion of refugee protection and assistance f...

Sixteen people died and 49 others are missing and presumed dead in three separate incidents involving smuggling boats in the Gulf of Aden over the last 48 hours.

The first incident took place early ...

We are very concerned about the temporary detention and alleged mistreatment of three Uzbek refugees and two Uzbek asylum seekers that took place last week in Almaty. The five men reported to UNHCR th...

High Commissioner António Guterres arrives in Algiers today for a 5-day visit to Algeria and Morocco that will include meetings with top government officials in both countries, visits to Western Sahar...

More than 20,000 refugees from Bhutan have now left Nepal to begin new lives in third countries under one of UNHCR’s largest resettlement programmes.

The resettlement of refugees from Bhutan from the...