Around 100 German politicians and journalists crowded into a dinghy on Berlin's river Spree on Tuesday as part of an initiative by a German charity to raise awareness of the precarious conditions on ...

TRIPOLI, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, April 1 (UNHCR) - UN refugee agency staff in Tripoli were on Wednesday helping hundreds of boat people rescued off the coast of Libya earlier this week as news reports ...

LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — A boat crammed with more than 500 refugees, likely Rohingya and Bangladeshis, was found Wednesday off the coast of Penang island in northern Malaysia, a person involved in ...

The number of small boat migrants arriving on British shores pales in comparison to the number turning up to some other ...

GENEVA – At least four Rohingya refugees from Myanmar were killed when their boat capsized in rough seas early on Tuesday (Oct 31) in the Bay of Bengal near the coast of Bangladesh, UNHCR, the UN ...

After premiering his joyful Haitian dance film Konpa last year at the Tribeca Film Festival, Haiti-born, Miami-based filmmaker Al'Ikens Plancher returns with Boat People, a new short film on the ...

There are parts of the East End of Glasgow, a deprived urban area notorious for its low life expectancy, that the locals themselves call "Bandit Country". It makes Bilal, 34, half-wonder if this is ...

More than 30 people were still missing two days after a boat carrying asylum seekers to Australia sank off the Indonesian coast, killing 22 people including seven children, according to Reuters. The ...

Overcrowded and poorly made boats are still causing deaths in the Mediterranean. A refugee appears exhausted while swimming towards the shore after a dinghy carrying Syrian and Afghan refugees ...

The exodus of the Vietnamese people was a global humanitarian crisis whose impact continues. The exodus of the Vietnamese people in the '70s, '80s and '90s, was a major global humanitarian crisis that ...