DHAKA – Families were frantically searching for news of their relatives on Wednesday after a boat carrying about 280 Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi migrants...
Geneva—The United Nations will appraise its policies on refugees next week, due to an increase in armed conflict, the politicization of asylum law and...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Philippines recently held the 3rd Refugee Film Festival at San Beda University-Manila, celebrating youth-led films that...
United Nations, United States—The death of 15 medics and humanitarian workers in Gaza after shots were fired at their ambulances raises further concerns of "war...
GENEVA — Brazilian nun Sister Rosita Milesi on Wednesday won the United Nations refugee agency’s Nansen Award for decades of work championing the rights...
The Philippine government has committed $150,000 (approximately P8.3 million) for the United Nations initiatives to assist refugees and displaced persons in 2024.
The offer was...
"Half a million old people among the country’s five million pensioners live completely alone, abandoned by what an NGO describes as a ‘precarious’ elderly...
Athens—At least sixteen people died when a migrant boat sank in the Aegean, Greece’s coastguard said early Saturday, just hours after a similar incident...
"The march toward democratic rule takes years; it comes in many shapes and forms."
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. is right. There is no...
By Gustavo Gonzalez
UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator
The COVID-19 pandemic is set to trigger the deepest global recession since World War II and could push...
