refugee crisis

Border Services Agency and Mounties reassign staff to cope with heightened activity.

Interior Ministry said new powers would be used in cases where there is doubt about a refugee's identity.

Children frustrated with French reception centres reportedly returning to site of infamous camp.

The island nation's 'abysmal' refugee policy has been slammed by human rights activists.

Traffickers rape women and children to 'pay' for bringing them to Europe, says Dunkirk Legal Support Team

Women fear violence and abuse as they attempt to reach safety in Europe.

Kenya intends to appeal against high court's ruling to keep camp open claiming Dadaab is a 'terrorism haven'.

Court says forcibly repatriating refugees is anti-constitutional as it amounts to "group persecution".

More than a million people in search of sanctuary have travelled through Greece since 2015.

The men are cold, hungry and speak of police beatings - but are in search of a better life in Europe.

Four men died in one week in the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos.

Unaccompanied children are offered money to be smuggled into Europe in exchange for loyalty.

In the video, the Pope invites believers to spring into action to help the less fortunate.

Trump accused Australia of trying to export the 'next Boston bombers' during a hostile call on 28 January.

Campaign is part of Amnesty International's efforts to drum up global solution to the crisis.

Iraqi army has regained control of the city's east and is now ready to push across the Tigris.

While Israel is technically at war with Syria the country will accept 100 orphans who will most likely be adopted or fostered.

Lawand Hamadamin's parents fled Iraq after hearing rumours Isis wanted to kill disabled children.

As many as 200 refugees are currently stranded on the Hungarian border in dire conditions.

Following two shipwrecks last week off the Italian coast, the death toll has now reached 5,000.

Neo-Nazi group NPD planned march on anniversary of widespread sex attacks.

Nearly 100 people feared dead after inflatable dinghies capsized on the way to Italy on Thursday.

Around 34,000 have left rebel held areas of east Aleppo since start of ceasefire, said the charity.

The 25-year-old is accused of belonging to an unspecified terrorist organisation.

Some of the children have gone on hunger strike, others have pledged to go back to Calais.

Tindyebwa Agaba, who came to the UK as a refugee from Rwanda, tells IBTimes UK his story.

Migrants use Ceita and Melilla enclaves to cross into Europe and obtain temporary Spanish residency permits.

'German law takes precedence over sharia,' the German chancellor declared.

An Afghan asylum seeker has been arrested in connection with the crime.

The photos will be shown in an open-air exhibition as part of Amnesty International's I Welcome campaign and mark the lead up to Magnum Photos' 70th anniversary.