Refugees

Bruce Springsteen releases Minneapolis protest song, sings 'ICE out now!'

Bruce Springsteen's new protest song, "Streets of Minneapolis," honors Alex Pretti and Renee Good, victims of US immigration raids, as he critiques Trump’s policies.

Bruce Springsteen performs during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Philadelphia, October 28, 2024; illustrative.
Migrants onboard a rubber boat wave and gesture as they wait to be rescued by crew members of the "Ocean Viking" rescue ship in the search-and-rescue zone off the international waters of Libya, on January 16, 2026.

Hundreds feared missing or dead trying to cross Mediterranean Sea, says UN migration agency

People stand at the Kapikoy Border Gate, between Turkey and Iran, in Van province, Turkey, January 14, 2026.

Iranians arrive in Turkey through border gate as crackdown persists

(From L-R) IDF Central Command chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. Tamir Yadai at a meeting discussing West Bank counterterror, December 31, 2025.

WATCH: Katz urges invasion of West Bank refugee camps as Trump calls for restraint


HRW Report: Lebanon and Cyprus violating refugee rights

The report found that 15 of the 16 Syrian migrants interviewed experienced human rights abuses by Lebanese and/or Cypriot authorities while attempting to reach Europe by way of a smuggler boat.  

 Migrants stand on an iron boat near NGO Open Arms rescue boat "Astral" in international waters south of Lampedusa, in the central Mediterranean Sea, August 11, 2024.

Pope Francis says refusing aid to migrants a 'grave sin'

Pope Francis condemned the refusal to aid migrants crossing the Mediterranean and called for global migration governance based on justice and solidarity.

 Pope Francis holds the weekly general audience at the Vatican, August 28, 2024.

Ruach Hadash: Volunteer clinic in Haifa serves asylum-seeking refugees

The project is the brainchild of the Technion Faculty of Medicine as a means of teaching medical students a more holistic approach to treating patients.

 Artie Jacobowitz, a volunteer biomedical equipment engineer.

Australia lawmaker calls opposition leader racist over opposition to Gaza refugees

Independent parliamentarian Zali Steggall made the remarks during a speech criticizing center-right Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton for his call this week to bar refugees from Gaza.

 Australian Opposition Leader Peter Dutton reacts during a motion to suspend standing orders in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, August 15, 2024.

The war on Syrian Kurds and the little-known axis of ethnic cleansing - opinion

Local and global rights groups have raised alarms about these crimes, but the perpetrators continue their campaign, unrestrained by the international community. 

 Supporters of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) gather to celebrate Nowruz, which marks the arrival of spring, in Istanbul, Turkey, March 17, 2024.

Floods and famine overwhelm Sudan's largest refugee camp

Researchers found that brown floodwaters have submerged "toilets and nine out of 13 water points" in the Zamzam camp,

 udanese woman rests inside a shelter at Zamzam camp, in North Darfur, Sudan, August 1, 2024.

Syrian human smuggler has refugee status claim rejected by German court

After being denied status, the man appealed to the Higher Administrative Court, who ruled that the situation in Hasaka, where he is from, posed no personal danger to him.

 Turkey-Syria Barrier, on the left is the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (AANES).

Now is a unique opportunity for UNRWA to change, Israel should take it - opinion

The problems with UNRWA are not a new revelation: Even before the war, laws were proposed to limit it, and these are proceeding through the legislative channels.

 JORDAN’S FOREIGN MINISTER Ayman Safadi (right) meets with UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini, in Amman, last week. In 1949, when Israel supported the establishment of UNRWA, it was supposed to fulfill its goal and disband.

UNRWA is not an aid agency, it is more like an illegal drug dealer: It must be replaced - opinion

Such an agency has no justification to be part of the UN system, nor to be supported by anyone, definitely not by the taxpayers of democracies.

 UNHCR CHIEF Filippo Grandi: The UNHCR is much more competent than UNRWA in confronting the problem of refugees and settling them, says the writer.

Complex landscape awaits Gazan evacuees in Cairo

Around 100,000 Palestinians were able to evacuate Gaza and go into Egypt. However, Egypt’s notorious bureaucracy and severe economic crisis challenged the recent arrivals.

 Children sit on top of belongings, as Palestinians prepare to evacuate, after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of Rafah, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip earlier this year..