President Michael D Higgins has highlighted the importance of international cooperation to support the world's most vulnerable people.

By maintaining the level of resettlement at 520 people a year, Ireland can ensure it plays its part in implementing the Refugee Response Framework, writes Enda O’Neill.

Today is World Refugee Day, and aid agency GOAL have released six facts that you probably do not know about refugees.

A University College Cork campaign group for refugees is calling on all Catholic bishops to “confirm publicly” that they have the resources to provide shelter for refugee families.

Angelina Jolie has described a spiralling global refugee crisis as an “explosion of human suffering” whose causes the international community refuses to confront.

Dominic MacSorley, CEO of Concern Worldwide, says 60m have been uprooted from their homes by war and poverty. World Refugee Day should give us pause for thought    

Europe has utterly failed to grasp the gravity of the Syrian exodus, and Lebanon is paying the price, says Éamonn Meehan

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Office in Ireland has called on the Government to introduce a new single, asylum process like those which operate in other EU member states.

While seeking a better life, refugees can find life in direct provision centres hard, writes Noel Baker

US SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton fell and broke her elbow on Wednesday while en route to the White House but will resume her full duties soon as the top US diplomat, the State Department said.

The large number of people who rejected the Lisbon Treaty referendum over fears of an influx of immigrants was “extremely worrying”, an anti-racism watchdog warned tonight.

The North's Human Rights Commission today hit out at the system of detaining asylum seekers at a controversial detention centre in Scotland.

Angelina Jolie says she and Brad Pitt, who have three children including a newborn daughter, are planning to adopt another child.

Angelina Jolie, in her first US interview since the birth of her daughter last month, says the experience of giving birth was frightening.

Justice minister Michael McDowell was challenged today to show leadership on the protection of refugees coming to Ireland.

A music and dance concert featuring refugees from all over the world has got underway in Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green.

The crew and owners of a Norwegian freighter that staged a daring high seas rescue of 438 asylum seekers last year were presented the Nansen Refugee Prize today as part of events marking World Refugee Day.

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has urged the Government to work towards resolving the current refugee situation.

The Irish Refugee Council has attacked the Government's policy on immigration.

Employers, trade unions and religious leaders have joined forces today in a call for asylum seekers to be given the right to work six months after they apply to stay in Ireland.

Ireland’s Roman Catholic bishops today directed strong criticism at what they called the Government’s ‘‘asylum exclusion policies’’.

Pope John Paul has today hit out at the growing number of countries who are limiting entries to refugees.