Mahmood faces calls for compassion and clarity over hardline asylum policies Home secretary urged to explain statement that asylum admissions will start at ‘a few hundred’ people The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2025
Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2025
Advocate Urges Faster Asylum Processing in Mexico Amid Years-Long Delays: 'Simply Asking That Federal Statutes Be Followed' A source consulted by Border Report said that many applicants arrive without documentation, complicating verification of their status and rights Latin Times · Nov 8, 2025
Does the UN need to be run like a business? Ikea CEO Jesper Brodin may get the chance The outgoing Ikea chief is Sweden’s nominee to serve as the UN high commissioner for refugees. Fortune · Oct 23, 2025
Thailand to let Myanmar refugees work to counter aid cuts and labour shortages The move, welcomed by UN, will allow thousands of people living in camps to support themselves and their families The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2025
U.N. High Commissioner For Refugees Says Trump Immigration Policies May Be Violating International Law In a speech, Filippo Grandi criticized what he described as a growing disregard for international law among developed nations and emphasized that poorer countries continue to carry most of the global refugee burden. Latin Times · Oct 11, 2025
Cash-strapped UNHCR Shed 5,000 Jobs This Year The United Nations refugee agency has shed nearly 5,000 jobs this year following swingeing cuts in international aid, its chief said Monday, decrying the "disastrous" political choices behind the crisis. International Business Times · Oct 6, 2025
UN refugee agency chief suggests that US deportation practices violate the law The head of the U.N. refugee agency has suggested that President Donald Trump’s America has carried out deportation practices that violate international law The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2025
UN faces $500m budget cut and 20% job losses after big drop in US funding Core budget to fall to $3.2bn next year and initial minimum 3,000 job cuts expected amid streamlining process The Guardian - UK · Sep 18, 2025
How deadly conflict and climate crisis left the ‘food basket of Nigeria’ a humanitarian disaster zone IN FOCUS: Two million people have been left forced from their homes by conflict between herders and farmers that has seen thousands killed and many more left malnourished, writes Nick Ferris The Independent UK · Sep 18, 2025
More than 100 Sudanese refugees dead or missing in shipwrecks off Libya At least 110 people have died or gone missing after two boats carrying mostly Sudanese refugees sunk off the coast of Tobruk, Libya. Radio France Internationale · Sep 18, 2025
UNHCR says that US and European governments increasingly undermine the global refugee convention The U.N. refugee agency says that governments around the world, especially that of the United States and countries in Europe, are increasingly undermining the global convention on refugees and asylum seekers — even threatening its very existence The Independent UK · Sep 17, 2025
Sex work and abuse: the women trapped in Malawi’s growing refugee camp With the US no longer accepting refugees, Dzaleka’s residents have no prospect of relocation. Three women tell us what life is like in a camp designed for 10,000 people but which now holds more than 58,000 The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2025
Return or stay? The dilemma facing Syrians living in Europe Ahmad plans to go back to Syria in two or three years' time to help rebuild the country. In the face of insecurity and instability, on the other hand, Aisha feels that a return would be premature. Euronews · Sep 13, 2025
The Conversation · Sep 9, 2025 How international aid cuts are eroding refugee protections in the Global South Cuts to humanitarian aid by the United States government under Donald Trump are triggering a global dismantling of humanitarian infrastructure, which is severely undermining asylum systems.
The Independent UK · Sep 1, 2025 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home since Assad's fall, UN says An official with the U.N. reguee agency UNHCR says that since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government in December, some 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from neighboring countries
The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2025 ‘I was never worried’: 10 years on since Syrian siblings’ 2,700-mile escape to Germany Ten years after Angela Merkel declared ‘We can do this’ at the height of the 2015 migration into Europe, Syrian refugee Somar Kreker looks back at his 44-day odyssey
Radio France Internationale · Aug 22, 2025 Refugees in Cameroon face hunger as UN runs out of emergency food funds The United Nations has warned it will have to suspend life-saving humanitarian aid for half a million refugees and vulnerable people in Cameroon at the end of August unless it receives new emergency funding.
Euronews · Aug 15, 2025 Fact check: Are the vast majority of the world's refugees of Muslim background? EuroVerify investigates a claim shared by a politician from the far-right Portuguese Chega party, stating that 85% of refugees are of the Muslim faith.
The Independent UK · Aug 13, 2025 A boat carrying migrants capsizes off Italy, killing at least 26 A boat carrying nearly 100 migrants capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa, killing at least 26 people
Al Jazeera · Aug 13, 2025 At least 26 refugees and migrants die in shipwreck off Italy’s Lampedusa There are 60 survivors from the perilous journey from Libya, but a UN agency says there could be more people missing.
Euronews · Aug 13, 2025 At least 20 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Italy's Lampedusa, UN says Authorities have recovered 20 bodies, and are searching for another 12 to 17 survivors, according to the UN refugee agency.
Euronews · Aug 6, 2025 Pakistan extends deportation deadline for Afghan refugees but UN remains concerned Afghans have fled to Pakistan over the past four decades to escape war, political instability and economic hardship in their homeland.
Euronews · Aug 1, 2025 Italian, Turkish and Libyan leaders meet to address migration flows to Europe The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said that in 2021, 32,400 refugees and migrants had made the crossing from Libya to Europe, more than twice as many as in 2020.
The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2025 First group of Syrian refugees returns home from Lebanon under new UN plan The first group of Syrian refugees has returned home from Lebanon under a new plan developed by the United Nations and the Lebanese government