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Works by the London-based Iraqi artist and 29 other artists from the Arab world will be sold to help humanitarian organisations working in Beirut and beyond

An eight-country study assessed whether parenting programmes that were developed through research also work when offered at a wider scale in real-life conditions.

International law doesn’t require refugee camps, making them a policy choice rather than a legal obligation.

'This is a Jewish state': Arabic banned at work for Palestinian citizens of Israel Submitted by Samah Watad on Mon, 07/27/2026 - 11:11 From pharmacies to clothing stores, Palestinians say employers are increasingly policing the language they speak, while lawyers warn discrimination has become more ove

On Monday July 20, a team from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) visited two displacement sites in Gaza where they found two family tents decimated by domestic fires. This incident is indicative of the increasing frequency of domestic fires in Gaza. Families are resorting to burning waste, cardboard, and […]

Seventy-five years after the Refugee Convention was opened for signature on 28 July 1951, it remains the foundation of the international refugee protection system and one of the most consequential international legal instruments ever adopted. Born in the aftermath of the Second World War, it codified a simple but powerful principle: people forced to flee […]

Israeli forces raid Qalandiya refugee camp, injure Palestinian Israeli forces raided the Qalandiya refugee camp, north of occupied East Jerusalem, and injured a Palestinian, the Wafa news agency reported. A large number of soldiers entered the camp and fired live ammunition, local sources told Wafa. The forces also stopped several cars and fired stun gren

A single remark from an immigration official becomes the defining moment in Pascale Solages’ documentary, exposing how immigration systems perform fairness while keeping migrants in perpetual uncertainty. The post ‘You need to turn your pain into champagne’: A documentary exposes the performance of fairness in immigration systems appeared first on The Haitian Times.

An Israeli airstrike on Saturday killed the head of the police force in the northern Gaza Strip, Brigadier-General Abdel-Nasser Al-Maqadma, the enclave’s interior ministry and medics said. Maqadma, one of at least five Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Saturday, was also known as the governor of the northern Gaza Strip. He was killed in the Sheikh Radwan area north of Gaza City, medics sai

The war in Tigray did not only destroy lives, homes, hospitals and livelihoods. It also attacked the foundations of the region’s future by depriving an entire generation of children of education. In January 2025, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations reported that approximately 2.4 million school-aged children in Tigray had been

Israel kills head of northern Gaza police force The head of the northern Gaza police force has been killed in an Israeli air strike, the enclave's health ministry is reporting. It said that Brigadier-General Abdel-Nasser al-Maqadma, also known as the governor of northern Gaza, was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood. Me

Israeli forces conduct widespread raids across Jenin Israeli forces conducted large scale raids in Jenin and surrounding towns on Saturday morning, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing local sources. According to the sources, Israeli troops stormed the city neighbourhoods Jabal Abu Dhahir and Al-Marah as well as the towns and villages of Z

Across Haitian social media, testimonies about fraudulent travel agencies appear almost every week. Most of these agencies ask for between 3,500 and 5,000 US dollars for trips that never actually happen.

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Flooding in India’s northeastern Assam state has killed at least 50 people and displaced 700,000 after days of heavy monsoon rain that overflowed the Brahmaputra River, officials said Friday. The river, one of Asia’s largest that originates in China’s Tibet region and flows about 900 kilometers (560 miles) through Assam, flooded […]

[Darfur Network for Human Rights] A series of attacks across Blue Nile and Kordofan states this week left dozens of civilians dead, including children, as fighting between the Sudanese army, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and allied groups continues to spread into new regions of the country.

[DW] Trump is spending more money on refugees, but it's mostly white South Africans who benefit. People from crisis-stricken countries are being denied entry. Experts say the credibility of US refugee aid has been damaged.

Ma. Theresa Lazaro said that the bloc wants to see more progress on the implementation of the Five-Point Consensus for resolving the country's conflict.

With regional friction between Iran and the Gulf monarchies escalating, Houthi leadership in Yemen has proclaimed a total maritime blockade against all vessels linked to Saudi shipping. While this declaration does not constitute a verified military obstruction of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, it significantly heightens the risk of volatility at the Red Sea’s southern gateway, […]

When asked what development looks like today, a community leader in Kalaw township points to these fields. Once destroyed by a typhoon, they are now productive again. What began as emergency food assistance in the first month was followed by UNDP support in the community—seeds, training, debris removal, support to microbusinesses and small infrastructure—backed by […]

With the creation of a new refugee agency in January, the country has asserted its control over the processing of asylum-seekers.