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Athens marks World Refugee Day with protest against evictions
Thousands face homelessness in the country's refugee relocation scheme as Greek authorities plan to move more than 11,000 people to make room for other asylum seekers
Record 50 million people displaced internally – monitors
'Internally displaced people are often highly vulnerable people living in crowded camps, emergency shelters, and informal settlements with little or no access to health care,' IDMC director Alexandra Bilak says in a statement
Niger stampede kills 20 at handout for refugees
'The weakest people fell to the ground. Some were injured and others were crushed to death,' an employee says
Bangladesh police shoot dead 2 Rohingya in refugee camp
The incident comes 2 days after a second failed attempt to repatriate the refugees, who say they won't return unless they are promised security and citizenship in their homeland
UN on World Refugee Day: Bring forward our 'shared values as human beings'
The United Nation Human Rights Office for Southeast Asia says it is time to abandon a narrative founded on prejudice and fear when dealing and protecting the rights of all refugees
Some 250,000 Rohingya refugees receive first ID cards – UN
'Over a quarter of a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have now been jointly registered and provided with identity cards by Bangladesh authorities and UNHCR,' spokesman Andrej Mahecic tells reporters in Geneva
10 million people displaced internally by conflict in 2018
'It is really a mind-boggling figure,' NRC chief Jan Egeland tells reporters. 'It takes extreme violence and fear of disasters to force a family out of their home, their land, their property, their community.'
U.S. to begin forcing asylum applicants to remain in Mexico
The new policy, originally announced in December, will be launched initially at the busy Tijuana-San Ysidro border crossing south of San Diego, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official, speaking anonymously
'Welcome' refugees in Kansas celebrate their American birthdays
The annual tradition of holding a birthday party for refugees in Kansas is in contrast to the message refugees in the United States may have received in the last two years
Netanyahu warns Merkel of new refugee crisis sparked by Iran
'This will inflame another religious war – this time a religious war inside Syria and the consequences will be many, many more refugees and you know where exactly they will come,' says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Over 100 migrants escape from Libya trafficking camp
'This is another example of the ongoing horrors suffered by many migrants and refugees while transiting through Libya,' says Doctors Without Borders
U.S. pulls out of UN's Global Compact on Migration
US Ambassador Nikki Haley says the country's decisions on immigration policies must always be made by Americans and Americans alone
Two thousand Rohingya mass on Myanmar coast to join exodus
The refugees follow more than half a million fellow Rohingya who have emptied out of northern Rakhine in a single month, fleeing an army crackdown and communal violence the UN says amounts to "ethnic cleansing."
UN chief tells Myanmar to end 'nightmare' as 19 drown in Rohingya boat capsize
(UPDATED) 'The situation has spiraled into the world's fastest developing refugee emergency, a humanitarian and human rights nightmare,' says UN chief Antonio Guterres
Cyprus rescues 305 Syrian refugees in two boats
It is one of the largest waves of migrants to be received by Cypriot authorities in a single day since civil war erupted in Syria in 2011
Merkel warns of consequences for EU asylum laggards
German Chancellor Angela Merkel s warning comes after eastern governments reacted angrily to a court decision requiring them to accept a share of asylum seekers from overstretched Greece and Italy
Italy applauds Libya's decision on migrant 'search and rescue' zone
The measure is aimed at non governmental organizations which Libya accuses of facilitating illegal migration
Italy urges EU ports to take migrants as pressure builds
UPDATED Rome wants a regional maritime command center to oversee all rescue operations from Greece to Libya to Spain
Australia declares game-up for 'fake refugees'
UPDATED Refugee advocates say the Australian government has sunk to an impossible new low with the decision
56 jail terms for Egypt migrant shipwreck
The charges include manslaughter negligence using a boat for unlicensed purposes endangering children and organizing illegal immigration
EU-Turkey migrant deal turned Greek islands into 'prisons'
Thousands of people remain stranded in Greece a year after the European Union and Turkey signed a landmark agreement to reduce migrant flows
Germany to 'speed up deportation' of failed asylum seekers
The planned measures include setting up national deportation centers and offering financial incentives to those who will return voluntarily
France urges Britain to take in 1,500 'Jungle' minors
French President Francois Hollande says France would not accept the emergence of any more makeshift camps
Mediterranean migrant deaths in 2016 hit record 3,800 – UN
The most dangerous route is between Libya and Italy where the UN has recorded one death for every 47 arrivals this year
Syria, refugees and Obama's farewell in UN spotlight
The United Nations will also launch a new global campaign against xenophobia
Germany's anti-migrant populists beat Merkel's party in local vote
3rd UPDATE German Chancellor Angela Merkel s Christian Democratic Union gets just 19 in Mecklenburg Western Vorpommern – its worst showing there
Germany expects 300,000 asylum seekers this year
Should more people arrive it would put us under pressure But even then we would not have conditions like last year says BAMF chief Frank Juergen Weise
Millennials show the world a brighter, more open perspective – survey
The World Economic Forum’s 2nd Global Shapers survey provides an insight into the mindset of millennials
LOOK: 'Game of Thrones' stars visit Syrian refugees in Greece
They just want a voice That s what they all said to each of us – tell my story tell my story – and that s what we re going to do says Lena Headey who went to visit Syrian refugee camps in Greece with Maisie Williams and Liam Cunningham
Worrying 'climate of xenophobia' in Europe – UN refugee chief
Refugees don t bring danger to us they flee from dangerous places says UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi
UN chief in Greece sees 'tremendous challenge' of migrant crisis
Speaking after talks with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens the UN chief also hailed Greece for managing the refugee influx at the same time as grappling with its huge debt crisis
More migrant bodies wash up on Libyan beaches
Over 130 bodies are found on beaches in Libya over the past 4 days
Hundreds feared missing off Greece in new migrant sinking
UPDATED Until this point 340 people have been rescued and nine bodies have been recovered the Greek coastguard says in a statement without giving details on the migrants nationalities
Migrants hurt, tents torched in Lesbos brawl
Rival groups of Afghans and Pakistanis battle each other with clubs and stones
No longer just a job: the unlikely crew saving lives in the Med
They are unlikely members of the same crew: career seamen for whom it was initially just another job and landlubber humanitarian workers trying to make the world a better place
20 rescued from boat in English Channel
UPDATED They are among thousands of people trying to reach Britain where they believe they will have a better chance of getting jobs
Dozens of children drown as shipwrecks claim 700 lives, survivors say
3rd UPDATE Survivors tell harrowing stories of their journeys in the Mediterranean
Greece starts evacuating squalid Idomeni migrant camp
Thousands of refugees and migrants are being moved to reception centers around the country
Dignity only in death for migrants at France's Calais 'Jungle'
They fled hardship and war only to find misery and squalor but migrants who meet a gruesome end in northern France hoping to reach England are finally getting a touch of dignity in death
Migrant crisis needs generosity, not fear – Angelina Jolie Pitt
In a speech in London the Oscar winner and UN special envoy for refugees urges the international community to respond to Europe s refugee crisis
Turkey visa deal unravels as Erdogan defies EU on key condition
3rd UPDATE Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses the European Union of hypocrisy
Pope Francis tells EU to tear down migrant walls
I dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime but a summons to greater commitment on behalf of the dignity of every human being says the pontiff
Italy to start fingerprinting migrants at sea
The move might ease tensions between Italy and other European countries which are still struggling to deal with the migrant crisis
Merkel begins Turkey trip with visit to refugee camp
3rd UPDATE Many in Europe will also be watching closely to see if the delegation takes a stand against the deterioration of rights in Turkey
'There was such suffering': Pope Francis on meeting with migrants
There were so many children Some of these children witnessed their parents and friends dying drowned at sea says the pontiff
116 migrants rescued from Mediterranean, 3 with bullet wounds
A total of 116 migrants are plucked to safety from the Mediterranean three of whom had week old bullet wounds
Pope brings hope to migrants, chastises leaders in Lesbos visit
UPDATED Pope Francis begins his visit to the Greek island of Lesbos whose goal he says is to show closeness and solidarity with the refugees
Pope Francis arrives on Greek island to meet with refugees
UPDATED Pope Francis arrives in Lesbos for a visit framed as an awareness raising exercise trip whose purpose his spokesman insists is strictly humanitarian and ecumenical not political
Refugees escape war, but face new threat in Europe – germs
Health experts warn refugees are at risk of illnesses such as measles tuberculosis cholera and typhoid fever
Pope Francis set to visit refugees in Greece as deportations stall
The trip by the pope who will be accompanied by the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church is likely to pile pressure on European leaders already criticized for the deal with Turkey
