A report being launched today has found the current asylum system is making it difficult for refugees to integrate in Irish society.

More than a million children have been forced to leave Syria to flee the ongoing crisis.

The Government has pledged €250,000 towards the evacuation of innocent civilians fleeing from the conflict in Libya.

The hunger strike by 41 Afghan asylum seekers who fear they will be deported to their home country has entered its fifth day at St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.

A United Nations aid worker was shot and wounded in eastern Chad after being pulled from her car in a volatile region near the Sudanese border, the agency said today.

A threatening phone call that forced the United Nations to close offices in south-western Pakistan said al-Qaida would attack the world body’s offices there.

Angelina Jolie always struggles to return to acting after fulfilling her other high profile role as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.

BUILDING camps in African and other countries to hold would-be asylum seekers before they could reach Europe appeared to be gaining support from EU Justice Ministers meeting in The Hague yesterday.

AROUND 30,000 Sudanese victims of fresh attacks by Arab militia inside Darfur are threatening to cross into Chad unless the international community acts to protect them.

CHECHEN refugees flocked around Angelina Jolie yesterday as the actress visited a refugee camp in Ingushetia.

Chechen refugees flocked around Angelina Jolie today as the Hollywood actress visited a refugee camp in Ingushetia.

The United Nations has revealed that staff in a number of relief agencies have been accused of sexually exploiting refugee children in west Africa.

A major anti-racism campaign is to be launched simultaneously in European capitals, including Dublin, today.

More than 100,000 Afghans are believed to have fled to Pakistan to escape US military action despite the official closure of the border between the two countries, the UN said today.