Refugees held by Australia in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have barricaded themselves inside a detention centre and launched legal action to fight its closure. Detainees, fearing for their safety after ...

UNHCR Sub-Office Kakuma has two areas of operation; Kakuma Refugee Camp and the Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement. Kakuma Camp is divided into four areas: Kakuma 1, 2, 3 and 4 whilst the Kalobeyei ...

Jordan is home to Zaatari and Azraq refugee camps for Syrian refugees. Zaatari camp, the larger of the two, hosts over 80,000 refugees and is located 10km east of the northern Jordanian city of Mafraq ...

Police moved in on Thursday and ordered the men to leave the camp. One refugee, a journalist, was briefly detained. Australia said it was a PNG operation. The PNG authorities have cut food ...

Sources within PNG's immigration department have claimed Ms Lin is or has been associated with business interests or companies that have received payments out of refugee resettlement funds ...

The UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) states that there were over ... schools, or emergency tent camps. But as architect Diébédo Francis Kéré says, "When you have nothing and you want to convince ...

Refugee camps have to be constructed quickly when a humanitarian crisis hits. Nevertheless, they sometimes last for decades, evolving from makeshift shantytowns into full-scale urban developments Ifo ...

In 1978, the small Malaysian island of Pulau Bidong officially opened as a camp housing over 100 Vietnamese refugees after ...

A lightning strike killed 14 people during a prayer service in a refugee camp in Uganda on Saturday, authorities in the east ...

Fourteen people were killed when lightning struck a church in a refugee camp in northern Uganda, according to police.

The central African man came to Japan in early September. He said he had researched the Japan Association for Refugees (JAR), a nonprofit organization based in Tokyo, on the internet before arrival.

Since the 20th century, political unrest within postcolonial Arab states has produced refugee camps as spatial phenomena that feature within the Middle East and beyond. The most recent of refugee ...