While volunteering with a local nonprofit, Tamara Rawwad helped empower the women to find their voice. In a room full of ...

The Rohingya are a stateless minority facing ongoing persecution and violence in Myanmar. Violence against the Rohingya erupted in 2017, forcing over 700,000 to flee to Bangladesh. Now, more than 1.1 ...

Refugees are men, women and children who have fled their home country due to war, persecution, or political upheaval. Some eventually return when it’s safe to do so; others stay in temporary refugee ...

When Hassan was 18, he left Mogadishu, Somalia, where he had grown up. Prospects there were poor—the jihadist group al-Shabbab was trying to overthrow the government, schools were closed, and the ...

LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador, 3 May (UNHCR) - Diocelina spends most of her days running from one place to another in Lago Agrio, the small Ecuadorian town where she sought refuge three years ago. As well as ...

Around the world, refugees are using their skills to help the communities where they live during the coronavirus crisis. Moyehman is an Iraqi refugee nurse working 12-hour shifts in the COVID-19 ...

Meaghan Fanning, a therapist, and the youth social work manager at Jewish Vocational Services, leads a team dedicated to helping Kansas City refugees, children to young adults, deal with the emotional ...

New federal legislation has changed who qualifies for food stamps and health care benefits like Medicaid. Under President Donald Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill,' most refugees and people receiving asylum ...

The suffering of vulnerable populations is in our own neighborhoods, in our own city. How you help to alleviate it?

The number of displaced people has doubled in the last 10 years. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), more than 123 million people have been forcibly displaced for ...

In the past year, all new Nebraska refugees have come from one country: South Africa. The near-freeze has drained funding for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS), a New Haven-based nonprofit refugee and immigrant aid service, the last ...