GENEVA, Swaziland, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- An estimated 3,000 additional Sudanese refugees arrived in Chad's Birak region, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced Friday.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 25 (UPI) -- Fighting renewed Wednesday between the Lebanese army and Islamic militants holed up for more than two months in a refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- The United Nations says a registration drive of Afghan refugees in Pakistan has counted 2.16 million people, most of them women and children.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- The United States said it will accept 7,000 Iraqi refugees and will give $18 million to the U.N. refugee agency for operations in Iraq.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- A United Nations agency has condemned Russia's forcible return of an Uzbek refugee before his appeal of the deportation had been heard by a Moscow court.
GENEVA, Switzerland, June 30 (UPI) -- The U.N. refugee agency has appealed to Kazakhstan not to deport an Uzbek refugee who was arrested last week, reportedly at the request of Uzbekistan.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The U.N. refugee agency says a new European Union policy on asylum could lead to violations of international law.
UNITED NATIONS, July 1 (UPI) -- A humanitarian crisis is building in southern Colombia due to continued fighting between government and rebel forces, says the U.N. refugee agency.
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 20 (UPI) -- The U.N. Refugee agency said Tuesday it is still $25 million short of its goal for aid to Liberia, despite last week's urgent appeal for donations.
UNITED NATIONS, March 9 (UPI) -- A U.N. team to assess the refugee stuation in southern iraq has returned for a second visit to Basra, the chief U.N. spokesman said Tuesday.
