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Forced To Flee Myanmar, Rohingya Refugees Face Monsoon Landslides In Bangladesh

4:26pm August 25, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

This week marks a year since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled attacks in Myanmar. As refugees, they now live in huge camps in Bangladesh, with difficult conditions made worse by monsoon rains.

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Dildar Begum, 30, in her shelter in the Hakimpara Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. She says 29 members of her extended family were killed a year ago in what the U.S. has said was a campaign of ethnic cleansing by the Myanmar military.

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'I Would Rather Die Than Go Back': Rohingya Refugees Settle Into Life In Bangladesh

10:47am August 24, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

A year ago, Myanmar soldiers launched what the U.S. and the U.N. say was a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims. "I would rather drink poison than go back to Myanmar," says a refugee.

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African migrants climb over a metal fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Since the early 1990s, Spain has built 20-foot-tall, layered border fences around its two North African enclaves, Ceuta and Melilla, to help dissuade migran

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Opinion: The EU Looks To Offshore Its Migrant Crisis. That's A Horrifying Prospect

8:02am July 29, 2018

by Isabella Alexander

European leaders are looking to set up migrant holding sites outside the EU, following a controversial Australian precedent, writes an anthropologist who researches migration in North Africa.

Syrian refugee girls stand outside their tent at a camp near the border with Syria in eastern Lebanon on June 13.

U.S. Refugee Program 'In Danger' Amid Steep Drop In Refugee Arrivals, Advocates Warn

3:53pm July 24, 2018

by Deborah Amos

Just 49 Syrian refugees have been admitted in fiscal year 2018, compared with more than 12,000 in 2016. "The refugee program is in danger," says the head of a resettlement organization in Connecticut.

International law on refugees has its roots in the massive displacement that occurred in Europe during World War II. Above: Belgian refugees fleeing after the German invasion of their country in 1940.

Amid Migrant Crises, Nations Flout International Law On Refugees

10:05am July 20, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

The rights of refugees were enshrined in international law in the wake of World War II. But those rules aren't always respected.

Women grieve as the coffin of one of the 24 migrants who drowned while trying to reach Italy, is buried in Santa Maria Addolorata Cemetery on the outskirts of Valletta, Malta, on April 23, 2015. The migrants died as a smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds

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'I Do This For The Families': The Daunting Task Of Identifying Missing Migrants

5:55pm July 07, 2018

by Joanna Kakissis

The International Commission on Missing Persons in The Hague has identified remains of 18,000 people in the Balkans. Its new challenge: to I.D. the remains of migrants who died trying to reach Europe.

Protesters in Seoul demonstrate against a group of asylum seekers from Yemen, on June 30. Hundreds of asylum seekers from Yemen have arrived in South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju.

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Anti-Refugee Backlash In South Korea Targets Yemenis Fleeing War And Seeking Asylum

9:21am July 05, 2018

by Elise Hu

More than 500 Yemenis are awaiting asylum decisions on a South Korean resort island that allowed them to arrive visa-free. Their presence has sparked nationwide protests.

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Syrian refugees get an identity check on the Lebanese side of the al-Zamrani crossing between Lebanon and Syria on Thursday.

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'I Hope To God We Will Be Safe': Refugees In Lebanon Start Returning To Syria

8:14am July 01, 2018

The Lebanese government is encouraging departures, but the U.N. objects. "We are at the service of the refugees," says a Lebanese security official, "but we have reached the limit of our capability."

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Pope Francis arrives in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Wednesday for his weekly general audience, the same day he tweeted his support for migrants and refugees.

Pope Joins Calls To End Family Separations, Says He Stands 'With Refugees'

2:44pm June 20, 2018

by Amy Held

"A person's dignity does not depend on them being a citizen, a migrant, or a refugee," Francis tweeted Wednesday.

In Kiribati, an island republic in the Central Pacific, large parts of the village Eita (above) have succumbed to flooding from the sea.

The Refugees The World Barely Pays Attention To

11:45am June 20, 2018

by Tim McDonnell

They're known as 'climate refugees.' But there's not even an international definition for them, let alone recognition or protection.