The United Nations says about 258 million people have left their countries and are now living in other countries.According to U.N. report on International Migrants Day, the percentage of the world's people who are international migrants has increased from 2.8 percent in 2000 to 3.4 percent this ...

UNITED NATIONS: Myanmar must grant citizenship to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims so that they can return from Bangladesh to the Southeast Asian country, where they fled government-run violence against the persecuted minority group, the head of the Office of the United Nations High ...

DHAKA,(APP/AFP): Bangladesh must not force Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar to move to camps on a desolate island, the UN refugee chief said Monday. Authorities have stepped up moves to house the Rohingya on the island in the Bay of Bengal since a new surge which now totals 436,000 refugees ...

ISLAMABAD: (APP) The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has announced an increase in assistance package for registered Afghan refugee families, who are opting to return to Afghanistan under the UNHCR facilitated voluntary return progamme.This, he said in a statement issued ...