High Commission For Refugees
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Nations to gather at Marrakesh to approve UN migration pact
- World
- December 8, 2018, 05:01
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(...)

Asylum: the wait goes on
- Editorial
- April 30, 2018, 00:02
The treatment of asylum seekers in this State is so unsatisfactory that the United Nations High Commission for Refugees has, once again, intervened on(...)

Israel cancels deportation of 35,000 African asylum seekers
- Middle East
- April 2, 2018, 21:10
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.(...)

Honour Famine victims by aiding ‘modern equivalents’ - Varadkar
- Irish News
- September 30, 2017, 19:11
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 extend mandate for naval operation off Libya
- Europe
- July 17, 2017, 19:06
EU foreign ministers, in an extended debate on people-smuggling on the central Mediterranean route between Libya and Italy, have agreed to extend the (...)

Refugees in Ireland face struggle to reunite with families after legal change
- Irish News
- May 30, 2017, 14:56
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(...)

The American dream: Freedom is elusive for refugees in Kenya
- Africa
- May 20, 2017, 01:00
“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 asylum application process comes into effect
- Social Affairs
- January 3, 2017, 01:00
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(...)

Tech community puts on its thinking app to help refugees
- Business
- October 20, 2016, 05:50
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(...)

Closing our eyes to human suffering
- Religion & Beliefs
- October 10, 2015, 01:01
In mid-September I visited Halba in northern Lebanon, approximately 40km from the Syrian border. People there have been living in soaring temperatures(...)