CALAIS, France, June 17 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has been sending staff from its Paris office on a weekly basis to Calais, where hundreds of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, are living in ...

GENEVA, Aug 7 (UNHCR) - Stressing the situation was neither new nor unmanageable, the UN refugee agency said on Friday there were an estimated 3,000 refugees and migrants in Calais and elsewhere on ...

Some 60 Syrian refugees are occupying a ferry terminal at the port of Calais in northern France – a popular crossing point into Britain – and demanding the British government grant them asylum into ...

Britain to announce proposals on asylum with refugees facing longer waits and possible return to their countries.

Britain proposed sweeping changes to its policy on asylum seekers on Monday, the latest European country to announce tighter ...

Ben Whitham, senior policy and research officer at Refugee Action, writes that the Sudan war exposes 'racial injustice' in ...

It has lagged other countries, Germany in particular, in providing appropriate lodgings for refugees to seek safety. Migrants collect their belongings on the Avenue de Flandre during the evacuation of ...

The Labour Party could have made the case for a humane immigration system that treats refugees with dignity. Instead it has fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far right. I have visited ...

Britain said it would make refugee status temporary and the wait for permanent settlement would be quadrupled to 20 years ...

The UK government is stripping back protections and ending automatic benefits for people who have been given asylum seeker ...