TEHRAN, October 21 - In his recent interview with MNA, Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Tehran has praised Iran for providing very affordable healthcare services for refugee s.
TEHRAN, October 14 - Some 602,759 displaced Syrians have been returned to their homes of which about two-thirds of that number specifically resettled in Aleppo Governorate.
TEHRAN, October 11 - Oxfam International accuses EU leaders of pursuing policies that facilitate the abuse of refugee s and the agency calls on them to provide safe routes for refugee s wishing to enter the bloc. In a damning new report Oxfam says EU institutions and national governments in the bloc have created a fortress Europe for political gain.
TEHRAN, September 23 -Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government forces have been killing civilians in an insurgency-hit region, prompting the latest influx of refugee s into northern Zambia, a senior UN official said, citing accounts of asylum seekers.
TEHRAN, September 6 -Australia has been obligated by Victoria State’s Supreme Court to pay billions in compensation to hundreds of asylum seekers it has been illegally keeping in dire conditions on a remote island.
TEHRAN, August 19 -Soldiers busily assemble tents with wooden floors, lighting, and heating in Canada's Quebec Province near the US border to temporarily house a surge in asylum seekers from the United States.
TEHRAN, August 14, YJC -Italy has welcomed a decision by Libya to ban foreign refugee rescue vessels from entering a stretch of waters off its coast, in a move that has halted almost all such international operations there.
TEHRAN, July 20, YJC - Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Greece is failing to protect unaccompanied refugee children on the Greek island of Lesbos, warning that Athens is registering lots of lone minors as adults.
TEHRAN, May 31, YJC - Clashes erupted on Wednesday between students and police at the vocational school at Berliner Platz, where officials were trying to evacuate a 20-year-old Afghan asylum seeker from the camp.
TEHRAN, May 29, YJC -The Australian government has been sued over the detention of immigrants in a case due to be heard in the largest ever trial of its kind this week.
TEHRAN, April 12, YJC -The United Nations has raised alarm over a climbing number of refugee s passing through Libya who are being traded in so-called slave markets before being held for ransom and subjected to malnutrition and sexual abuse.
TEHRAN, April 11, YJC -The UN's refugee agency says the risk of mass deaths from starvation is growing in parts of east Africa, Yemen and Nigeria due to a combination of conflict, drought and a shortfall in humanitarian aid funding to help beleaguered populations cope.
TEHRAN, April 11, YJC - A huge fire has destroyed large swathes of a refugee camp in northern France following violent clashes that injured several people there, local firefighters and officials say.
Turkish European Union Affairs Minister Omer Celik says time has come for the Ankara government to reassess its controversial refugee deal with the 28-nation bloc, which would grant Turkish citizens visa-free travel through most of Europe.
Tehran, YJC. A representative of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Iran has hailed the Islamic Republic for having hosted the largest refugee population in the world during the past 3 decades.