CARTAGENA, Colombia, Nov 11 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency and countries in Latin America are gearing up to mark the 20th anniversary of a landmark document that broadened the refugee definition used ...

All people who move between countries deserve full respect for their human rights and dignity. There are, however, different reasons and motivations for people to leave their homes and, consequently, ...

The number of displaced people has doubled in the last 10 years. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), more than 123 million people have been forcibly displaced for ...

American leaders of all political stripes lament the nation’s broken asylum system, but they also fall lockstep into short-sighted, reactive fixes that don’t solve the underlying problem: an outdated ...