GENEVA – More than 3.5 million refugee children aged 5 to 17 did not have the chance to attend school in the last academic year, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says in a report released today. These ...

Clémence (name changed), 21, a mother of two, holds her 6-month-old baby outside their home in a village near the city of Kananga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Kasai-Oriental province on ...

While many photographers focus on either aesthetics or rigorous documentation, Rania Matar fuses them — and adds a generous dose of humanity for good measure. Born and raised in Lebanon, the ...

At the Nakivale Refugee Welcome Centre in South West Uganda, conditions are dire. Families sleep on concrete floors in overcrowded, unsanitary spaces. One mother from the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Uganda is on the verge of hosting 2 million refugees as escalating crises in Sudan, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) drive hundreds of people to cross the border daily in ...

In June, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said a funding shortfall has compelled it to scale down its operations worldwide. The measure includes some 3,500 staff cuts. In Malawi, where the UNHCR has been ...

Escaping from brutal conditions in some nations of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, the world's r efugee children need specific kinds of support. While they are diverse in terms of their ...

The number of displaced people has doubled in the last 10 years. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), more than 123 million people have been forcibly displaced for ...