GENEVA – At least four Rohingya refugees from Myanmar were killed when their boat capsized in rough seas early on Tuesday (Oct 31) in the Bay of Bengal near the coast of Bangladesh, UNHCR, the UN ...

Around 100 German politicians and journalists crowded into a dinghy on Berlin's river Spree on Tuesday as part of an initiative by a German charity to raise awareness of the precarious conditions on ...

LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — A boat crammed with more than 500 refugees, likely Rohingya and Bangladeshis, was found Wednesday off the coast of Penang island in northern Malaysia, a person involved in ...

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency said Friday it fears that 427 Rohingya fleeing Myanmar and a refugee camp in Bangladesh may have died at sea this month. UNHCR said it has collected reports from ...

Search and rescue officers in Malaysia's Langkawi island found two more bodies on Wednesday (November 12) after a boat carrying members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority sank near the ...

A worrying rise in the number of Haitian refugees arriving by boat off the Florida coast is raising questions about a long-standing immigration practice that determines why some fleeing migrants are ...

Now the government hopes a similar model could help to deter people from making dangerous crossings. Community sponsorship allows local communities, charities and faith groups to get involved in ...