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New Balkan border restrictions untenable

UNHCR, IOM, and UNICEF say recent border restrictions unworkable from humanitarian, legal and safety perspectives

Young Afghan uses language skills to help medics on Lesvos

Amena Yusufi, 21, puts her knowledge of five languages to use interpreting for refugees and medical teams in a tent on the Greek Island of Lesvos

Resettlement of Bhutanese refugees surpasses 100,000 mark

In 2007, 108,000 refugees from Bhutan were living in seven camps in Nepal. Today, just two camps remain with fewer than 18,000 refugees.

Q&A: The challenges to ending displacement in Nigeria

After Paris attacks, refugees should not be turned into scapegoats

UNHCR concerned at reports attacker may have entered Europe in current influx, but stresses overwhelming majority are fleeing persecution and conflict

Asylum-seekers await application results at historic Berlin airport

Berlin Tempelhof Airport provides temporary home to 2,000 asylum seekers, including 500 children, as their claims are assessed.

UNHCR chief says it is "absolute nonsense" to blame refugees for terror

Guterres urges European Governments not to make any unilateral moves in the aftermath of recent attacks, but to find a united response

UNHCR welcomes definitive bilateral ceasefire in Colombia

High Commissioner António Guterres calls on the Colombian government and FARC rebels to do everything possible to reduce the impact of the conflict.

Some 3,300 people a day still arriving on Lesvos

Despite dangerous sea conditions and the approach of winter, the number of refugees and migrants arriving each day remains high.