MIGRATION

Myanmar pledged that Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh by the hundreds of thousands would start their journey home later this month. However, few believe that will happen.

A photo depicting three young Moroccan migrants getting some rest in washing machines at a Paris launderette has attracted attention online.

Syrian Refugee Support Group of Calgary members will donate blood and recruit new donors on New Year's Day to help during the Canadian blood shortage.

Saudi Arabia, like other rich Gulf nations, is a magnet for hundreds of thousands of people from impoverished East African nations like Ethiopia and Somalia.

IBTimes UK asked 12 Getty Images photojournalists to choose their most memorable photo of the year and tell us the story behind the picture.

Belgium was heavily criticised in September when it allowed a delegation of Sudanese officials to travel to Brussels and identify apparent illegal immigrants.

Scotland houses 2,000 Syrian refugees three years ahead of schedule through the Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement Programme, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announces.

Aisha, a 20-year-old mother, wants to educate her daughter but added that she "does not even know what will happen in the future".

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is showcasing a new film, Human Flow, about 21st century refugees

Immigration minister Inger Stojberg open to plan that would move hundreds of foreigners to camps on Danish islands.

The US Supreme Court ruled that the ban on seven countries can come into effect even as legal challenges continue through lower courts

Lufthansa and Eurowings pilots in Germany are preventing planned deportations of asylum seekers and refugees.

The Pew Research Centre report projects that the increase will take place in the future decades even if migration is brought to a standstill.

The 100 most powerful images of the Rohingya Muslim refugee crisis

Police urged asylum seekers to leave as their stay in the closed down centre, in an area used by the Papua New Guinea navy, was illegal.

Award-winning photojournalist Kevin Frayer has returned to Bangladesh to document the hardships faced by the refugees, 60% of whom are children.

Rohingya Muslims who were injured while fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state showed their wounds to Reuters photographer Jorge Silva at refugee camps in Cox's Bazar.

Many of the migrants are forced into indentured service after their attempts to reach Europe are delayed or they run out of funds to pay the smugglers.

Rohingya Muslims are so desperate to leave Myanmar they are willing to risk their lives by crossing a four-kilometre (2.5-mile) stretch of water on flimsy makeshift rafts or even swimming to Bangladesh.

Compiled by artist Banu Cennetoğlu, The List took up 48 pages of the daily newspaper's Thursday edition.

The victims' corpses were picked by a Spanish military ship and most of them are thought to be from either Niger or Nigeria.

The move is in line with 'International Megan's Law', passed by Congress at the end of 2015 and signed into law by former President Obama.

The actor offered to take in six refugees after the Australian government's decision to shut the detention facility, leaving hundreds of people without food, water and basic facilities.

A small fishing boat carrying up to 45 Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar to Bangladesh capsized in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday (31 October), leaving at least four dead.

French police have been accused of "unprovoked and extreme" violence against refugees, including children, in the port of Calais.

Protesters urge government not to repatriate the nearly 600,000 minority Rohingya Muslims.

One in five Rohingya children in Bangladesh's refugee camps are "acutely malnourished" and require medical attention, says Unicef report, Outcast and Desperate.

Hundreds of civilians fled the city last week as US-led airstrikes on Isis fighters intensified to drive them from one of their last Syrian strongholds.

The German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has proposed that the nation introduces public holidays during Muslim festivals. His comments were rounded on by the AfD.