Egypt and Jordan are the two states that bear the greatest responsibility, both legally and morally, for the situation that ...

Refugees are among the most vulnerable people in the world. The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol help protect them. They are the only global legal instruments explicitly covering the ...

Millions of Palestinians rely on the UN agency, not only in Gaza but also across the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem. | ...

Japan is a signatory to the Refugee Convention, which defines a refugee as a person who has fled his or her home country because of fears of persecution on racial, religious or other grounds.

Human rights advocates are demanding to know why the UN’s refugee agency hasn’t done more to secure the Uyghurs’ right to asylum.

Credit: AP/Ilyas Indonesia, like nearby Thailand and Malaysia, is not a signatory to the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention and is not obligated to accept them. However, the country generally ...

Incoming President Donald Trump has halted for at least 90 days a refugee admissions program that resettled 100,000 ...

Refugees are legal immigrants ... A survey from the Southern Baptist Convention-affiliated Lifeway Research conducted last year found that more than one-third of all evangelical Christians ...