Who is an ‘asylum-seeker’? An asylum-seeker is someone who is seeking international protection. Their request for refugee status, or complementary protection status, has yet to be processed, or they ...

Fair Shot launched in May of 2024, but the players who make up Fair Shot FC come from a range of grassroots football projects working with refugees and asylum seekers around the country that have ...

Pax Christi of Stark County hosted a forum this week on immigration, defining an immigrant, migrant, refugee and ...

Existing legal gaps hinder the full protection of refugees and asylum seekers, prompting these proposed reforms. Studies conducted with the support of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and ...

said Friday that Somalia is hosting 41,765 registered refugees and asylum seekers as of December 2024. The UN refugee agency said in its latest report on displacement that 64 percent of the ...

By 2024, only a small fraction of asylum-seekers from Sudan and Eritrea had been granted refugee status. In the late fall of 2024, Usman would be one of the few to cross that finish line ...

Similar to asylum seekers, refugees are those who suffered persecution or fear it due to race, religion, nationality, membership to a particular social group or political opinion. However ...

NOGALES, Sonora — Mexican national and asylum seeker Tania, 24 ... managing attorney for the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project. In previous presidential transitions, “even if ...

Human Rights Watch’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Division defends the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, displaced people, and migrants worldwide. We investigate rights violations arising from ...

Among asylum seekers, Russian nationals now make up the largest group, with 18,257 applications -- 15 percent of the total. The number of Russians applying for refugee status has surged in recent ...

But rising numbers of asylum seekers at the southern U.S. border ... According to the UN refugee agency, a record-breaking 3.6 million new individual asylum applications were registered worldwide ...