Refugee

While the White House starts to calm public outcry on the zero-tolerance policy, at the United Nations continues the debate on the recent US withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council. Secretary-General António Guterres and UNHCR head Filippo Grandi come...

In Baryali’s eyes, you can see the reflection of the Himalayan highlands, and the boundless grassland plains of his country. But what he remembers of his Kabul is the sound of the bombs and the destruction. Today, he is a...

Every Saturday afternoon the “World Friends Chess” Club meets at the Hudson Park Library in New York to dedicate an entire hour to the game of chess, to friendship and integration. The players are all children and many from refugee...

At the High-Level Leaders’ Summit on Refugees on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, United States President Barack Obama urged leaders to focus their collective attention on helping the world’s 21.3 million refugees (65 million people are displaced...

La Voce sat down with Rana Najib and Maria Laura Conte from AVSI to discuss the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon, where of the 1.1 million refugees, more than half of the 500,000 that are children don't go to school....

The UNHCR projects that in 2017 Syrians will account for 40% of resettlement. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said, “We are seeing resettlement taken to a new level and that enhanced resettlement can be an effective means of sharing...

Since the pressure has been rising in the Middle East, more civillians have been put under attack. The city of Madaya has been starved out, a technique considered a war crime: many have died and many more are in critical...