It also defines a refugee’s obligations to host countries and specifies certain categories of people, such as war criminals, who do not qualify for refugee status ... Convention which consolidated and ...

The process, which began under the League of Nations in 1921, culminated in the 1951 Convention which consolidated and expanded on previous international instruments relating to refugees ...

The UK government has been criticised for bringing in new guidance which effectively bans refugees who entered the country ...

Picture: Nigel Sibanda /The Citizen United States (US) President Donald Trump’s offer of refugee status to Afrikaners ... Koma said the 1951 UN convention on refugees referred to “any person ...

In 1938, 32 countries gathered in Evian, France, failed to reach an agreement to let in hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis. Protection was dependent on each country’s ...

Despite both domestic and international criticism, Japan remains on course to enforce stricter rules on people seeking refugee status on June 10. Critics say the revised Immigration Control and ...

Two Congolese refugee families in Oshkosh are facing hardship after recent changes in US immigration policy. Federal funding cuts have impacted resettlement agencies like World Relief, which these ...

The U.K. government is “choosing criminalization over compassion and protection” with its new asylum and immigration bill, according to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.

Canada said it granted refugee status to two Japanese women last September due to widespread discrimination they faced in Japan as lesbians and members of the weaker sex. Ottawa also cited the ...

This word has appeared in 78 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? By The Learning Network This word has appeared in three articles on NYTimes.com in the past ...

US President Donald Trump criticized $21 million funding for voter turnout in India and $29 million to strengthen Bangladesh's political landscape. He questioned the allocation of such substantial ...

A Montana judge on Wednesday struck down a state law defining sex in binary terms, finding that the law violated the Montana Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and privacy. Judge Leslie ...