Uyghurs detained in Thailand say they face deportation, persecution in ChinaUyghur men detained in Thailand for over ten years face deportation to China. Activists and family members fear abuse and torture if they a...
11 Jan, 2025, 09.06 PM IST
Nearly 5 million people in India internally displaced due to climate change, disasters in 2021: UNAccording to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), in 2021, there were 23.7 million new internal displacements globally due t...
17 Jun, 2022, 01.18 PM IST
Canada to deploy military personnel to Poland to support Ukrainian refugeesMost of those military personnel will assist with the immediate care and processing of Ukrainian refugees at reception centers across Polan...
14 Apr, 2022, 11.21 PM IST
There's a way to get refugees out of Afghanistan after this week's deadline — if the Taliban agreesWord-of-mouth and proof-of-concept build momentum. In Vietnam, the orderly departure program was secured by the UN refugee agency years aft...
30 Aug, 2021, 12.35 PM IST
Destination India: 1,000 Afghans in, thousands in queueThousands of people are desperately seeking to board the earliest flight out of Kabul to India following the Taliban takeover of Afghanista...
20 Aug, 2021, 11.50 AM IST
Over 80 million people displaced, a 'bleak milestone': UNBy the end of 2019, 79.5 million people were living uprooted and displaced, including nearly 30 million refugees -- more than one percent o...
09 Dec, 2020, 10.40 AM IST
Muslim, Rohingya refugees convert to Christianity to take benefit of the Citizenship (Amendment) ActThe legislation, which was passed by Parliament last year and came into existence on January 10 this year, allows non-Muslim migrants from ...
24 Jul, 2020, 12.31 PM IST
UNHCR moves SC against CAA; India rejects interventionJeria in her plea to SC referred to India’s history of providing asylum to everyone who fled oppression and pointed out several areas of co...
04 Mar, 2020, 08.59 AM IST
Citizenship Law: Providing no relief to the majority of asylum seekersMajority of the refugees in India come from three countries that are not included in the Citizenship (Amendment) Act — China, Sri Lanka and...
21 Dec, 2019, 10.34 PM IST
NRC row: Where does India stand on refugees?The Union government has not made its position clear and India does not have repatriation agreements with Bangladesh and Nepal for the same.
06 Oct, 2018, 11.00 PM IST
UN report: Over 7,000 people from India filed applications for asylum in US in 2017There were 197,146 refugees as at 2017 end in India and 10,519 asylum seekers with pending cases. There are about 40,391 asylum seekers fro...
20 Jun, 2018, 01.16 PM IST
Rohingya refugees illegal, pose security threat: Centre to SCThe Centre said that since India is not a signatory to the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951, the obligations concerned t...
18 Sep, 2017, 01.53 PM IST
Centre to file reply on plea challenging Rohingyas deportationThe Centre today apprised the Supreme Court that it would be filing during the day its response to a PIL challenging deportation of Rohingy...
18 Sep, 2017, 12.55 PM IST
Mull over consequences if passport impounded during travel: HCThe observation came while hearing a couple's plea challenging revoking of their citizenship and impounding of their passport in 1995, whil...
22 Aug, 2017, 01.20 PM IST
2015 likely to record highest global forced displacement: UN2015 is likely to exceed all previous records of global displacement with at least five million people forced to flee their homes in the fi...
18 Dec, 2015, 11.14 PM IST
Refugee influx to boost economic output of the receiving countriesA new Bloomberg survey of economists predicts that Germany will get a 0.2% boost to its economic output next year if it takes in 8 lakh ref...
27 Nov, 2015, 06.07 AM IST
Conflict and persecution forced 42,500 people to leave their homes per day in 2014According to the records of the United Nations Refugee Agency, worldwide displacement in 2014 was at the highest level ever recorded.
06 Sep, 2015, 09.30 AM IST