UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

AUSTIN,Texas — The Legislature must overhaul the impeachment process to eliminate confusion with the process laid out in the Texas Constitution and state law for future legislatures, a state senator ...

He said it gave asylum seekers "false hope”, explaining there was "nothing progressive or compassionate about turning a blind eye" to the crisis. However, Border Security Commander Martin Hewitt ...

Article 14 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: Everyone has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. The 1951 UN Convention relating to the Status ...

DENVER — Colorado Republicans have elected a former county treasurer as their new chairwoman as the party seeks to reverse recent trends of electoral losses and intraparty conflict. Brita Horn, who ...

Norfolk Southern wants two other companies to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its disastrous 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and the ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Ex-Panama President Ricardo Martinelli will be allowed to leave the Nicaraguan embassy where he’s been holed up for more than a year to travel to Nicaragua for humanitarian ...

Poland on Wednesday temporarily suspended the right of migrants arriving in the country via its border with Belarus to apply for asylum. Prime Minister Donald Tusk declared that the contentious ...

A controversial legislative bill has been signed into law by Poland’s president, officially suspending the right for people to claim asylum within its territory. The move has been condemned by ...

EXCLUSIVE: Angels in the Asylum, a British indie film starring Simon Pegg and Katherine Waterston, has stopped shooting indefinitely after running out of cash midway through production ...

Kruger Castro said before President Trump returned to office, volunteers at orientations like this might explain how people could apply for asylum, a legal protection designed to allow people ...

HELSINKI, March 27 (Reuters) - Finland's right-wing government has asked parliament to extend until the end of 2026 a law that allows it to reject asylum applications from migrants crossing its ...