MNA The Iranian Ambassador to London Hamid Baedinejad said 56% of the worlds 21 million refugees are being hosted by just 10 countries, including Jordan and Iran. According to the Amnesty International, 56 percent of the world's 21 million refugees are being hosted by just 10 countries- all in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, wrote Iranian ...

UNHCR - Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, commends progress in documentation, education, livelihoods and health for Afghans in Iran. Iran continues to set a global example through its progressive and inclusive refugee policies, but the country needs more support hosting one of the largest refugee populations in the world, said UN ...

Press TV - Pope Francis has used his traditional New Years Day address to highlight the plight of refugees seekers, describing them as the worlds weakest and most needy. In a Monday speech before an estimated 40,000 people who had converged at St. Peters Square at the Vatican, the Pope also said he had chosen the plight of migrants and refugees ...

Washington Times - PresidentTrumpimposed new restrictions on refugees from 11 high risk target countries Tuesday, reportedly all but one being mostly Muslim, saying they pose too much of a danger to be admitted without a compelling national interest. In his executive order,Mr. Trumpannounced he was restarting general refugee processing after ordering ...

Tasnim A delegation from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is going to visit Iran next month to make an assessment of the situation of refugees, especially the Afghans, UNHCR representative in Iran said. In an interview with the Tasnim News Agency in Irans northeastern city of Mashhad, Sivanka Dhanapala said the UN delegation ...

Europa- The European Commission has announced humanitarian assistance of over 44 million to help people in need in South-West and Central Asia, who continue to face the consequences of years of conflicts and displacement, as well as recurrent natural disasters. The funding will support Afghan refugees and their families in Iran and Pakistan,...

Press TV- An Iranian official says the figure for the refugees in the country, who have received proper education, stands at 60 percent, 48.5 percent of whom are females. This is good cultural news, the managing director of Iranian Interior Ministry's Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants (BAFIA), Ahmad Mohammadi-Far, said on Tuesday. In accordance ...

Tehran, Sept 7, IRNA - The UN General Assembly will host a high-level summit to address large movements of refugees and migrants, with the aim of bringing countries together behind a more humane and coordinated approach at UN Headquarters in New York on 19 September 2016. This is the first time the General Assembly has called for a summit at the Heads ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Up to 9,000 refugee children and teens had been reported missing as of July 1, according to Germany's federal police. The figure appears to have nearly doubled since the start of the year. At least 8,991 refugee children under 17 years of age are no longer in contact with authorities according to figures revealed by Germany's ...

Thousands of people have taken to the streets across Spain to express their anger at the recent draft agreement between Brussels and Ankara regarding the expulsion of refugees from Europe. According to organizers, some 5,000 people staged a nationwide protest across more than 50 Spanish cities on Wednesday, demanding the reconsideration of the ...

VIENNA (AP) -- Antonio Piani appears to have beaten the odds stacked against refugees finding work in Europe, but the hotel where he works was set up specifically to employ people like him. The 40-year-old says the janitor's job is his first permanent position since leaving Iran more than 11 years ago - a disheartening message for the hundreds of ...

KILIS, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey has reached the end of its "capacity to absorb" refugees but will continue to take them in, the deputy premier said Sunday, as his country faced mounting pressure to open its border to tens of thousands of Syrians who have fled a government onslaught. The United Arab Emirates meanwhile joined Saudi Arabia in saying that ...

A third of the Europe-bound refugees making perilous sea crossings from Turkey to Greece are now children, the United Nations (UN) says, adding that there are more children and women on the move than adult males. Children currently account for 36 percent of those risking the treacherous sea crossing between Greece and Turkey, spokeswoman for ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended her open-door refugee policy, arguing that asylum seekers from Syria and Iraq would go back home once the conflicts there end. Addressing a meeting of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Saturday, Merkel said that despite efforts to integrate refugees ...