Full Coverage: Refugees

14.06.2008 It's Refugee Week, with a variety of events, including a mock refugee camp In London's Trafalgar Square on Tuesday, Asylum Speakers Speak Out, and a rare opening of the cash-strapped museum of migration.

30.04.2008 A first batch of Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal has landed in America. Described as one of the largest resettlement programmes in the world, the US has agreed to take in 60,000 refugees. Away from sub-human conditions in the camps, they are finding their new life both strange and full of prospects.

10.04.2008 UNHCR and Google have unveiled the "Google Earth Outreach" programme to help understand the refugee world and ongoing humanitarian efforts. All you have to do is to sit in front of your computer and it will take you on a virtual reality tour in Chad, Iraq, Columbia and Sudan.

04.04.2008 When recently Bhutan took its first steps towards democracy, the international community and media showered praise on its monarch. But for those living in exile for past 17 years and more, will this herald a new chapter in their lives and will they be able to return to the land that they consider their own?

04.04.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Apr 3 (OneWorld) - A leading humanitarian group is calling for the United Nations Security Council to take additional measures to help about 1 million Somalis who have been rendered homeless by the ongoing armed conflict in their country.

03.04.2008 For people running from bullets and shells their whole lives, the idea of a peaceful future is like a mirage. With peace returning in Sri Lanka the internally displaced population are being resettled. But will they be able to live a normal life? The question lingers.

01.04.2008 In line with the policy of closing down all refugee camps in Pakistan by December next year, the government continues to send back Afghan nationals back to their country. In March alone, over 10,000 of them were repatriated. Currently, over three million registered and unregistered Afghan refugees are living in Pakistan.

28.03.2008 South Asians for Human Rights is organising a consultation on the Concerns of the Bhutanese Refugees in South Asia on March 31, 2008, in New Delhi, India. The consultation will provide a forum to deliberate on the present state of the Bhutanese refugees in India and Nepal and the recently held elections to the National Assembly.

27.03.2008 Greenpeace has warned that if current levels of emissions of greenhouses gases are not curtailed and global warming is not kept below 2-degree point, a major humanitarian crisis is awaiting the South Asian region. This can result in massive displacement of 125 million people in India and Bangladesh alone.

20.03.2008 Human Rights Watch has condemned NepalÂ’s use of excessive force to silence and detain protesting Tibetan exiles in Kathmandu. Protests mounted in the capital since March 10 in reaction to BeijingÂ’s violent suppression of protesters in Tibet and neighbouring provinces in China.

19.02.2008 Afghanistan government has urged Iran not to deport its illegal migrants, as it does not have the capacity to absorb them. More than two million Afghans live in Iran, of which less than half have the status of valid refugees.

06.02.2008 NepalÂ’s recent decision to resettle refugees from Bhutan in third countries is good news for over 107,000 people who have lived in camps for the last 17 years. The first groups of refugees are expected to begin departing next month.

17.01.2008 In wake of Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis and demands by various activist groups, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has announced doubling its humanitarian aid to £18 million over the next three years. Around one-third of the country's poor survive on less than US$ 1 a day.

09.01.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 8 (OneWorld) - The heads of 21 international humanitarian organizations have sent a letter to George W. Bush, demanding the U.S. president address Iraq's "refugee crisis" during his week-long trip to the Middle East, which begins Wednesday.

31.12.2007 United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, set up last year to help countries ravaged by conflicts, will now be available to Nepal. There is an urgent need to consolidate the countryÂ’s peaceful gains after the government and Maoists formally ended the decade-long civil war, which left thousands dead and many more displaced.

17.12.2007 Renewed fighting between army troops and rebel forces in the eastern province of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, is worsening displacement among civilians in the area and leading to forced recruitment of displaced people, including children, as fighters.

30.11.2007 An art and photography exhibition in Kathmandu brings to light the difficulties faced by young Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. Forced out of their home country with their families in the 1990s, these young people have no memories of Bhutan, yet yearn for a return to their old homes.

07.11.2007 Some of the worst disasters have taken place in Asia taking heaviest tolls of human life and property. The second Asian Ministerial Conference being held in Indian capital city on Disaster Risk Reduction will focus on prevention, mitigation and preparedness for disasters.

02.11.2007 More than 40,000 Bhutanese children of Nepalese origin have grown up in refugee camps in Nepal after their families were stripped of citizenship. These children, suffering from poor health and social biases, want better lives for themselves.

02.11.2007 Refugees may not be explicitly mentioned in any of the Millennium Development Goals, but their interests are at the heart of each one.