Here are five things the U.N. does that you may not have known: U.N. agencies facilitate programs worldwide focused on women, ...

Four generations after its founding, the United Nations is facing major funding cuts and renewed questions about its future.

She illustrates how the International Refugee Organisation, which replaced the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in 1946, handled these implicating issues and the refuseniks ...

UNRWA said on Friday that the plight of Palestinian refugees remains “the world’s longest-standing unresolved refugee crisis, ...

Netflix’s Transatlantic tells the story of how Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee helped thousands of refugees flee France during World War II. Read how the organization became the ...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Saturday that the plight of Palestinian refugees remains "the world&# ...

For more than seventy-five years, the United States has accepted migrants who would be identified under current international law as refugees. In the wake of World War II, the United States passed ...

Sister at Reading convent recalls struggle for survival as Polish refugee during World War II When she was a young girl, the family of Sister Jacynta of the Bernardine Franciscan Sisters at ...

An international panel led by Swiss Professor Jean-Francois Bergier on Friday publishes its report on Swiss refugee policy during World War II. The report is likely to criticise Switzerland for ...

This dynamic isn’t new or particular to this war. One of Panyushkin’s interviewees recalls the story of her grandmother, who fled Soviet-occupied Tallinn during World War II and “packed an ...

Seeking to spark awareness of the hardships of refugees, the Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice invited members of the University community to reflect on what it would be ...