High Commission For Refugees

Worldwide, the number of migrants has increased to more than 250 million, or just over 4 per cent of the world’s population. Sixty eight million of t(...)

The treatment of asylum seekers in this State is so unsatisfactory that the United Nations High Commission for Refugees has, once again, intervened on(...)

In a dramatic last-minute U-turn, Israel has cancelled the deportation of some 35,000 African asylum seekers that was due to begin in the coming days.(...)

The Taoiseach has said the best way to remember those who died in Ireland’s Great Famine of the 1840s is to help their “modern-day equivalents” by wel(...)

EU foreign ministers, in an extended debate on people-smuggling on the central Mediterranean route between Libya and Italy, have agreed to extend the (...)

Concern has been expressed that recent legislation has made it harder for the families of refugees and migrants to join them in Ireland. Under the I(...)

“California, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico. ” Libin lists the states over a plate of injera bread inside an Ethiopian restaurant, growing more excited as s(...)

New procedures to speed up applications for asylum, which have just come into effect in Ireland, should significantly cut the length of time asylum-se(...)

While a new app or two won’t solve the refugee crisis, technology is key to bringing about social change in authoritarian societies and is a powerful(...)

In mid-September I visited Halba in northern Lebanon, approximately 40km from the Syrian border. People there have been living in soaring temperatures(...)