Minister of State for Interior Shehryar Khan Afridi has urged UN Refugee Agency to collaborate with Pakistan in highlighting the Afghan refugees' issues in the country. He was talking to UNHCR representative in Pakistan, Ruven Menikdiwela, who called on him in Islamabad to discuss matters related ...

WASHINGTON: US cuts aid to UN refugee agency for Palestinians after Trump tweet The US State Department on Tuesday said it was withholding more than half of the planned funding for UN agency that looks after Palestinians, but dismissed suggestions that it was being done to punish Palestine which ...

GENEVA, June 20, (APP): World Refugees: Record Breaking people displaced worldwide in 2016 The number of people displaced worldwide has hit a new record, with 65.3 million people forced from their home as of the end of 2015, the UN said Monday. "This is the first time that the threshold of 60 ...

GENEVA, June 13, (APP): Refugees worldwide increasing trends: UN The United Nations said Monday it will try to resettle a record 170,000 refugees urgently in need of a new home next year as it grapples with an unprecedented displacement crisis. The projected resettlement figure from the UN ...

LONDON, May 24, (APP): Angelina Jolie to deliver lectures on women in London University Hollywood star and UN refugee agency envoy Angelina Jolie is to become a visiting professor at Britain's prestigious London School of Economics, the university announced Monday.  Jolie was named as one of ...