Over 500 000 Rohingya have streamed into Bangladesh in the past five weeks and numbers are expected to swell again with another 10 000 waiting to move
Sweden and South Africa are popular destinations for LGBTQ refugees, but both countries are far from perfect
The conflict in the Central African Republic is getting more violent and is spreading to previously unaffected areas. The world seems indifferent
Assisting displaced people to integrate with their hosts will help build inclusive, resilient cities
Critics may say the muppets are little more than politicised stuffed animals, but to dismiss the power of Sesame Street is a mistake.
The health department recognises this but not everyone, including asylum seekers, knows this
Asylum seekers may face even greater difficulties entering South Africa in the near future.
2 000 people a day flee conflict in South Sudan, DRC and Somalia, putting pressure on Uganda’s resources
Experts warn that the country’s overburdened asylum system could leave people trapped at ‘processing centres’ for years.
So far, an estimated 12 300 people have made the perilous journey to safety on foot, fleeing deepening conflict in Kasai province
"The returnees are also getting extra assistance to help them settle, including $90 worth of food a month from the World Food Programme"
German Syrian sues Facebook for not removing his image from fake ‘terrorism’ news stories.
Many Ugandans were once refugees themselves. Now, they are ‘paying back the good’ and making their country one of the best in the world for refugees.
Refugee women and girls fearing sexual violence are taking matters into their own hands.
The EU is making aid to Africa conditional on it taking back Africans who have fled
As the United Nations met to discuss the refugee crisis, Winnie Byanyima, once a refugee, looks at what can be done.
Kasem Alsabsabi has a German passport, and cancer, but his family is stuck in a camp in Athens.
“Will Germany manage?” he asked, referring to Merkel’s mantra: “We can do this”.
A team of refugees from the world’s conflict zones is seeking glory and acceptance at the Rio Games.
Sending Dadaab’s refugees back to Somalia will become the next health emergency.
Business owners want to move ahead on pieces of land where some people have lived for 25 years. The city should re-home the refugees, they say.
Refugees on a boat that set sail from Libya were photographed falling into the Mediterranean.
Poor people who have fled their countries are expected to pay steep rates for treatment at government hospitals in Gauteng.
Refugees can flee their countries, but they can’t escape the trauma of war.
Often sidelined outsiders can now use their cellphones to establish their rights, get answers about general issues and lodge complaints.
Many refugees flee their own war-torn countries to find safety in South Africa. But the country is not the safe haven they think it will be.
New measures "constitute a legal wall to asylum just as despicable as a razor-wire fence”, says Human Rights Watch.
Abused women from war-torn countries who have fled to SA for safety often face more maltreatment here.
The lucky few who survive Boko Haram’s raids are streaming into Minawao refugee camp, a Cameroonian refugee camp.
Malawian immigrants come in the hope of finding jobs – but if they don’t have the proper papers, they face arrest, detention and repatriation.
Prohibited from working, refugees at the overcrowded Dzaleka camp have been surviving on minimal food rations due to donor cutbacks.
People holed up in a grim Calais camp could no doubt identify with the tortured Danish prince during a performance by actors from Shakespeare’s Globe.