UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today called for a temporary suspension of all transfers of asylum-seekers to Hungary from other European States under the Dublin Regulation. The Dublin regulation is an ...

GENEVA, September 21 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency on Friday issued new guidelines on the detention of asylum-seekers and said UNHCR was concerned at its growing use in a number of countries. "The ...

Amnesty accused Algeria of breaching international law by forcibly returning a political dissident to Tunisia, despite him ...

Algerian authorities must clarify the legal basis for the forced return of former parliamentarian and government critic Seifeddine Makhlouf to Tunisia on 18 January, despite the fact that he was a ...

Amnesty International has formally condemned the Algerian government for the "forced return" of former Tunisian lawmaker and ...

Financial difficulties affecting the U.N. refugee agency and other United Nations bodies have significantly slowed the registration of new asylum seekers in Morocco, pushing waiting times from two ...

Plans to deport asylum seekers back to Syria are set to be ramped up as a Home Office "priority," despite growing safety fears.

* The UNHCR Yellow Card is a registration card issued to asylum seekers in Egypt who have formally applied for refugee status ...

At least 21,807 foreign refugees and asylum seekers fleeing violence in neighbouring countries remain unregistered in Nigeria, denying them access to food assistance, healthcare and other essential ...