GENEVA – US migration externalization arrangements are already putting migrants at heightened risk of human rights violations, including torture and persecution, Human Rights Experts** warned today, a...

A new crackdown on foreigners operating small businesses in Kenya—announced by President Ruto in September—risks undermining progress made on integrating refugees. The government of Kenya must urgentl...

The Australian government has caused thousands of people seeking asylum to suffer grave abuses under its offshore detention system, which began in September 2001.

‘Where the wealthiest country in the world allocates money has always been a question of political will over political way’

The Spanish government and local authorities in its North African enclave Ceuta should act urgently to provide adequate shelter to all migrants and asylum seekers living unsheltered since entering Ceu...

By the time authorities reacted, an estimated 60,000 people had reached Ceuta in just a few days, the largest migration surge between Morocco and Spain in years.

L’arrivée du 30 au 31 juillet d’environ 50 000 à 60 000 personnes à Ceuta, enclave espagnole en Afrique du Nord, a été non seulement sans précédent, mais aussi tragique.

The arrival of an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 people in Ceuta, Spain’s enclave in North Africa, on July 30-31 was not only unprecedented but also tragic. At least 72 people died, including many who dro...

Spain and the EU are working with Morocco to agree a response to sudden influx of some 60,000 migrants into north African enclave of Ceuta

Saudi authorities executed five Ethiopian migrants for nonlethal drug-related offenses on July 27, 2026 without due process.

Britain sees itself as a leading international actor on the war. Refugees and campaign groups paint a different picture.

Fresh from a trip to Haiti, US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz offered the UN Security Council on July 20 a harrowing account of the “kill zone” he said Port-au-Prince has become.

En débarquant dans un aéroport au Cameroun il y a quelques semaines, deux femmes camerounaises tremblaient de peur. Elles avaient fui leur pays il y a plus d’un an pour demander l’asile aux États-Unis...

Disembarking at an airport in Cameroon a few weeks ago, two Cameroonian women shook with fear. They had fled their country over a year before to seek asylum in the United States, but were summarily de...

Many refugees and asylum seekers in Egypt, mostly from Sudan and South Sudan, have faced a months-long campaign of arbitrary arrest, unlawful detention, and deportation.

Disembarking at an airport in Cameroon a few weeks ago, two Cameroonian women shook with fear. They had fled their country over a year before to seek asylum in the United States, but were summarily de...

GENEVA – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday urged prompt action to prevent further loss of life in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody and called for indepe...

Le 12 juin, la République centrafricaine a accueilli 18 hommes et femmes de différentes nationalités expulsés des États-Unis, malgré sa fragilité en tant que pays qui se remet de décennies de conflit ...

On June 12, the Central African Republic accepted 18 men and women of other nationalities deported from the United States, despite its own fragility as a country recovering from decades of conflict an...

Al-Nazir Al-Sadig sought safety in Egypt from the civil war in Sudan. Instead, the 18-year-old died of pneumonia after more than three weeks in a squalid Cairo jail, where he had suffered beatings and...

Happy 250th birthday, America. The Golden Door is officially closed.

Cameroonian authorities are arbitrarily detaining non-Cameroonian nationals deported from the United States and detaining and abusing journalists who tried to interview them.

Cameroonian authorities are arbitrarily detaining non-Cameroonian nationals deported from the United States and detaining and abusing journalists who tried to interview them.

Congress approved five of six federal funding bills this week, delaying funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over concerns regarding recent immigration crackdowns, including killings ...

From the day it took office, January 20, 2025, the second Trump administration has spawned new immigration policies at a dizzying pace.

EU-backed crackdown in Mauritania halts migrant boats to Spain, leaving thousands like Diallo stranded and sparking rights abuse concerns.

Critics say the UN has failed to mount a sustained public challenge to an unprecedented crackdown.

Drastic cuts to the budget of the UN’s refugee agency mean an uncertain future for 56,000 refugees.

The United States’ recent expulsions of third-country nationals to Eswatini, Ghana, Rwanda, and South Sudan have exposed several hundred people to a risk of arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, and ref...

Critics of the plan said they fear it would put vulnerable people at risk of being deported to countries where they could face torture and persecution.

The Unitedd States government is inviting government delegations to a high-level meeting on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in what looks like the first step in a bid to tear down t...

Migrants trying to leave from the west African country of Mauritania say they are suffering brutal, inhumane and degrading treatment at the hands of security forces funded by the European Union.