More than 1,100 people fleeing insecurity in Mali have crossed into Mauritania this week, the UN refugee agency reported ...

Barham Salih, a former Iraqi president who fled persecution under Saddam Hussein, has been appointed the next U.N. High ...

GENEVA — Former Iraqi President Barham Salih is on track to become the next head of the U.N. refugee agency, according to a ...

Global Refugee Forum Progress Review must deliver fresh commitments as funding declines and political resistance rises, says ...

In a remarkable chapter for global humanitarian leadership, Dr. Barham Ahmed Salih, the former President of Iraq, has been ...

GENEVA, April 4 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency on Friday formally issued an appeal for US$40.3 million to provide protection and assistance to refugees and internally displaced people in Sudan's ...

The United Nations will appraise its policies on refugees during the Global Refugee Forum opening Monday in Geneva. This move ...

Former Iraqi president Barham Salih is set to become the next United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, according to a ...

UNHCR, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, was created to solve refugee problems. UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency ...

AMMAN, Aug. 19 (UNHCR) - In early August 2003, just three months after the fall of Saddam Hussein's government, UNHCR had nine offices set up all over Iraq. The refugee agency was preparing for the ...

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the U.N. refugee agency suggested Monday that President Donald Trump’s America has carried out deportation practices that violate international law, and criticized a wider ...

The United Nations General Assembly has approved former Iraqi President Barham Salih as the next head of the U.N. refugee ...