As the province prepares to welcome its share of the 25,000 Syrian refugees coming to Canada, one St. John's woman is working to help those displaced in Iraq. From Syria to St. John's: Refugee family ...

From virtual Yoga classes, to marathons, cycles and lockdown art projects, a record number of people got in touch to tell us how they wanted to help raise money for and awareness of refugees this year ...

When Hassan was 18, he left Mogadishu, Somalia, where he had grown up. Prospects there were poor—the jihadist group al-Shabbab was trying to overthrow the government, schools were closed, and the ...

North Carolina has thousands of students who are refugees, and schools can be a source of stability during unstable and ...

Since the Trump administration suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program a year ago, many asylum-seekers have been relying on their communities for support. With their list of eligible benefits ...

The number of displaced people has doubled in the last 10 years. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), more than 123 million people have been forcibly displaced for ...

GENEVA, May 22 (UNHCR) - Teaching refugee children to play again: that's what UNHCR hopes to achieve when it expands sports programmes for children living in refugee camps to a total of 16 countries ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS), a New Haven-based nonprofit refugee and immigrant aid service, the last ...

New federal legislation has changed who qualifies for food stamps and health care benefits like Medicaid. Under President Donald Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill,' most refugees and people receiving asylum ...

Meaghan Fanning, a therapist, and the youth social work manager at Jewish Vocational Services, leads a team dedicated to helping Kansas City refugees, children to young adults, deal with the emotional ...

SKOPJE, North Macedonia — Three Balkan countries have offered to help desperate Afghans, but no refugees have flown in on U.S. flights. As thousands of people continue to throng around Hamid Karzai ...

Covid-19 and its repercussions have shined a harsh light on the situation for global refugees. Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, for instance—now at more than 1 million—have been beset by a ...