Barham Salih has known torture and the wrenching loss of exile. Four decades after his own ordeal, he has taken the helm of the UN refugee agency as it grapples with a funding shortfall and ever-rising needs.


Kenya's Kakuma camp holds nearly 3,00,000 refugees

Mothers in Syria are being forced to abandon their babies in mosques, hospitals and even under trees. People in poverty-ridden refugee camps are struggling to feed their children. Molly Gambhir reports.

Gravitas: Why are Syrian mothers forced to abandon their babies?

Afghanistan has witnessed a huge rise in internally displaced people- since the withdrawal of US troops. WION's Anas Mallick travelled to one of the camps in Kabul to see what the situation is like.

WION Ground Report: Internally displaced Afghan families being sheltered at refugee camps

Kenya’s high court has temporarily blocked the closure of two refugee camps that are hosting more than 400,000 people, as per media reports. The decision came after Kenyan Interior Minister Fred Matiang’i announced the government’s plan to shut down the Dadaab and Kakuma camp.

Kenya high court blocks closure of refugee camps housing 400,000 people

A peaceful police operation was underway on the island of Lesbos on Thursday (September 17) to move homeless migrants into a temporary tent camp after thousands had resisted entering the new facility.

Your Story: Protests and counter protests over migrants in Lesbos

United Nations' World Refugee Day on Saturday (June 20), will be the same as every day for Marwan Kuwaik, a 70-year-old Palestinian in Gaza, who will be focused on trying to eke out a living by selling snack food on the street. This year's event is aimed at reminding the world that everyone, including refugees, can contribute to society, the U.N. said on its website.

On World Refugee Day, Palestinian tries to scrape by in Gaza

Ethiopia has recorded the first coronavirus cases among its vast refugee population, prompting fears of rapid spread among a "very high-risk" group, a regional health official said Tuesday.

Ethiopia records first coronavirus cases in refugee camps

Ethiopia plans to shutter a camp for Eritrean refugees and resettle thousands of its inhabitants in other camps that the UN considers already full, an official said, despite concerns this could make them more vulnerable to COVID-19.

Coronavirus: Ethiopia moves to close Eritrean refugee camp despite virus fears

COVID-19 is hitting refugees camps, these camps could become the worst victims of coronavirus pandemic. Indiscriminate in targeting its victims, COVID-19 exposes the needs of tens of millions of refugees and displaced persons in destitute camps in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Bangladesh and shantytowns across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Overcrowded migrant camps at high risk of contracting COVID-19

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar since a military crackdown started in 2017 - most to sprawling refugee camps in Bangladesh — but many have been living in limbo on the border.

New Myanmar unrest panics Rohingya in border limbo

The central government is required to submit a comprehensive report on the same within four weeks

Rohingya case: Supreme Court demands details of refugee camps in Delhi, Haryana

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