A group of asylum-seekers in Belize have been granted Permanent Residency Cards, officially recognizing their legal status in the country. The residency cards were distributed on September 2nd during ...

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for more investment in higher education for refugees and more employment opportunities for refugee graduates to help realize their potential. In many ...

A week before the Paris 2024 Paralympics, Guillaume Junior Atangana and his guide and fellow refugee Donard Nyamjua received a surprise call from the President of the International Paralympic ...

GENEVA – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today praised Ecuador’s new presidential decree introducing an extraordinary regularization process for ...

Zakia Khudadadi made history on Thursday when she claimed bronze in her semi-final/final Para taekwondo bout at the Grand Palais on the first day of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, becoming the first ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning that millions of displaced Yemenis face worsening conditions as Yemen’s prolonged crisis deepens. This is according to the findings of a latest UNHCR ...

In a gym overlooking the Tiber River in Rome, Amelio Castro Grueso is practicing thrusting towards an imagined opponent with an épée, a type of fencing blade, while strapped into a sports wheelchair.

GENEVA – Without additional, urgent support, the recently declared mpox outbreak could become devastating for refugees and displaced communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and other ...

Refugee athlete Guillaume Junior Atangana ran an outstanding race at Paris’ Stade de France on Sunday taking third place in the men’s 400m T11 finals in a personal best time of 50:89, securing an ...