GENEVA - UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers today urged European justice and home affairs ministers to reaffirm the European Union's commitment to refugee protection, both within the EU ...

EU leaders are discussing how to handle a potential renewed wave of refugees from Ukraine in the face of uncertainty in U.S. policy and Russia's ongoing offensives, Politico reported on March 5.

Protecting the rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls is a strategic objective for the Council of Europe’s work to promote gender equality and women’s rights under the Gender ...

With Russia's war in Ukraine in its fourth year, the number of Ukrainians heading to Europe to seek asylum appears to be in decline. Currently, the EU hosts over 4.3 million Ukrainian refugees, with ...

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continued this week following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ordering of military forces into the country last Thursday, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have ...

Cyprus' interior minister Konstantinos Ioannou, second left, talks with his counterparts Austria's Gerhard Karner, left, Czech's Vít Rakusan, right, and Greece's Minister Of Immigration and Asylum ...

Greece has declared a three-month halt to all asylum applications for migrants arriving from North Africa. The European Union is hardening its borders, even if it means trampling on its own laws. In ...

Europe recorded notable drop in irregular border crossings, asylum applications during the year - Anadolu Ajansı ...

As a new year begins, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling on Portugal and Slovenia to harness their 2021 European Union (EU) Presidencies and negotiations on the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum ...

The U.N. said the five refugees have frozen to death already this year. — -- Freezing temperatures across Eastern Europe are imperiling the lives of thousands of refugees, many of whom are ...

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, urging Europeans to show humanity and dignity, said on Wednesday the EU executive would offer better protection for refugees but also improve its ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee agency chief questioned on Monday the European Union's strategy of building more camps in Turkey to stem the flow of refugees into Europe, saying it would be more ...