refugee
A United Nations research institute created an AI refugee avatar
Image Credits:UNU-CPR/404 Media A research institute connected to the United Nations has created two AI-powered avatars designed to teach people about refugee issues. 404 Media wrote about an experiment...
UN agency to present annual world refugee report
The number of refugees worldwide has climbed to record highs in recent years, and the trend is expected to persist when the UN refugee agency publishes its latest annual...
Judge orders U.S. refugee office to reconsider some children's cases
A federal judge said Monday that the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement must reconsider the cases of some migrant children who have been stuck in government custody since the...
German refugee authority says 464 Syrians have returned voluntarily
At least 464 Syrian refugees have returned home from Germany this month, a spokesman for the office for migration and refugees told dpa on Wednesday.Confirming a report in the...
Lebanon launches process to disarm Palestinian factions in refugee camps
A joint Lebanese-Palestinian committee tasked with the removal of weapons held by Palestinian factions in Lebanon’s refugee camps has met for the first time to begin hashing out a...
UN refugee body warns Germany over stricter border controls
The UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, has expressed concern over Germany's decision to tighten border controls and reject asylum seekers at the country's borders.UNHCR's representative in Germany, Katharina Thote, told...
South Africans land in U.S. after offered refugee status by Trump administration
The first group of Afrikaners landed at Washington Dulles International Airport on Monday after the Trump administration offered refugee status to White South Africans, citing the discrimination they face....
‘I saved my ID card and my dog’: Israel expands demolitions of West Bank refugee homes
On the night Israeli forces entered Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and began ordering its 20,000 Palestinian residents to leave their homes, 66-year-old Jumaa Zawayda said...
Catholic bishops end refugee aid partnerships with U.S. government, citing funding cuts
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Monday that it is ending a half-century of partnerships with the federal government to serve refugees and migrant children, saying the "heartbreaking"...
Judge tells State Department to keep funding refugee assistance programs
A federal judge on Monday ordered Secretary of State Marco Rubio to restore funding to a series of refugee assistance groups that he'd slashed, saying the Trump administration was...
