Turkey leading the hosting countries having 2.9 million refugees, UNHCR
Pakistan being an Islamic neighbouring country has accommodated a large number of Afghans refugees for the last three decades. Afghans have migrated from Afghanistan to Pakistan due to at least...
Malala Yousafzai urges Canada to play leading role in girls' education fight
Pakistani education activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has become only the sixth person, and the youngest, to ever receive honorary Canadian citizenship.
Canada bestowed the title...
UNICEF and UNHCR collaborate to utilize mobile technology for the empowerment of young refugees in Pakistan
A new initiative has been announced to empower young people and strengthen community development and citizens' engagements, through SMS Technology.
The United Nations Children’s Fund...
War and poverty have forced 50 million children around the world from their homes, according to UNICEF. The number of child refugees has doubled in the last decade, the report "Uprooted: The growing crisis for refugee and migrant children" states.
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Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini will swim for joy in Olympics 2016 after swimming for her life
About a year ago, Yusra Mardini was swimming for her life through the Aegean Sea in a last-ditch attempt to survive a perilous sea crossing from...
The world's six wealthiest countries host less than 9% of the world's refugees, according to a new Oxfam report.
While the United States, China, Japan, Germany, France and UK make up more than half the global economy, last year they...
Commending Pakistan’s generosity for hosting one of the world’s largest refugee populations, the UNHCR Chief urged global community to support returning Afghans and host communities
ISLAMABAD - The United Nations refugee agency has increased assistance package for registered Afghan refugees who...
UNHCR Global Trends report finds 65.3 million people, or one person in 113, were displaced from their homes by conflict and persecution in 2015
The number of people displaced worldwide has hit a new record, with 65.3 million people forced...
UN special envoy for refugees and Hollywood star Angelina Jolie criticize the global response to the global refugee crisis and warned that none of us are immune to becoming refugees"
Angelina Jolie, the Hollywood actress and the UN's special envoy...
The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan is in a “downward spiral,” according to the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Despite the worsening situation, attention paid to Afghanistan is inversely proportional to the humanitarian situation in the...
UK Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer has become prime minister of UK after a ceremonial meeting with King Charles III on July 5, 2024. Starmer has led Labour to secure a landslide victory in the UK’s 2024 general election to end 14 years of Conservative rule.
