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.

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 8 (UPI) -- International aid workers have been forced to withdraw from refugee camps in Darfur after being attacked by young men with sticks and stones.

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 5 (UPI) -- United Nations staff in remote southern Chad are rushing to relocate some 10,000 refugees who fled unrest in the Central African Republic over the past month.

BOGOTA, July 1 (UPI) -- Recent fighting between the Colombian army and leftist rebels has forced more than 1,000 from their homes in the southwest of the country.

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.

UNITED NATIONS, June 14 (UPI) -- The U.N. refugee agency says Burundi has emptied in less than two days its Songore transit center of nearly 5,000 Rwandan refugees despite U.N. appeals.

UNITED NATIONS, June 7 (UPI) -- The U.N. refugee agency is concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation where armed groups clash along Colombia's Pacific coast.

GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The United Nations says thousands of refugees, many of them ill, are fleeing fighting in the eastern Congo and pouring into neighboring Uganda.

GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- United Nations chief, Kofi Annan, is expected to launch in Jakarta Thursday a flash consolidated appeal for nearly $1 billion in aid to assist the millions deva