Migration

UNHCR high officials today acknowledged that facilities in Bhashan Char for the Rohingyas are much better than that in Cox’s Bazar camps while they pledged to work on their mandate of assisting refugees wherever they are...

More than 150 people were feared drowned in northwest Nigeria on Wednesday after an overloaded boat ferrying passengers to a market sank in the Niger River, local officials said. The boat was travelling between central Niger...

Apprehensions of undocumented immigrants at the US border with Mexico rose to a fresh 15-year high in April as the Biden administration failed to deter migrants, official data showed Tuesday. US Customs and Border Protection reported...

Since the start of 2021, the number of migrant children reported in Mexico has increased sharply from 380 to nearly 3,500, announced Jean Gough, UNICEF Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, after wrapping up...

United States (US) Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller today said his country wants to see ‘real progress’ on the ground in Myanmar so persecuted Rohingya community can return to their land of origin in a sustainable...

Despite calls for a ceasefire and sympathy during the Covid-19 epidemic, violence and persecution continue and people are being forced to flee their homes. Currently, a record number of people have been displaced. The United Nations...

This week (30/09), 164 migrants arrived home on a Voluntary Humanitarian Return (VHR) flight from Libya. Aboard the charter, which landed at Dhaka’s Hazarat Shajalal International Airport (HSIA), were nine survivors of the tragic shooting in...

The Government of Greece, together with IOM, the International Organization for Migration, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund welcomed the relocation of 139 asylum seekers to Germany, which has brought the...

On the sidelines of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, a lasting solution to the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh has been discussed. Apart from Bangladesh, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Turkey also hosted the virtual...

Germany intends to take in 1,500 migrants who are taking sanctuary on Greek islands, government experts said to Media, in addition to around 150 abandoned minors from the burnt-out Moria camp. Under a plan recognized by...