There are a growing number of forgers capitalising on refugees’ needs for civil documents such as birth certificates and passports. And they don’t come cheap, writes Tania Karas

The EU and its asylum and border rules were descending into chaos last night, increasing pressure on poorer states outside the union, including Serbia.

The US and its partners now realise that a no-fly ‘safe zone’ on Syria’s border will protect its citizens and force Assad to negotiate, writes Anne-Marie Slaughter

Up to 3,000 migrants are expected to cross into Macedonia every day in the coming months, most of them refugees fleeing war, particularly from Syria, the UN has said.

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

As many as 950 people were feared dead after a fishing boat packed with migrants capsized off the Libyan coast in what may be one of the worst disasters of the Mediterranean migrant crisis, officials said.

Up to 300 people are now unaccounted for after boats carrying migrants sank in the Mediterranean, according to the UN Refugee Agency.

More than 100 Syrians from the war-torn country have been granted safe haven in Ireland under a humanitarian admission programme.

The civil war in Syria has forced a record three million people out of the country and more than a million fled in the past year, the UN refugee agency says.

Angelina Jolie's acting career is to take a "back seat" as she concentrates on writing, directing and her UN work.

The father of a 15-year-old boy who stowed away in a jetliner’s wheel well has arrived in Hawaii, officials said.

The United Nations warned half of all Syrians will need humanitarian aid by the end of 2013 and launched what it said was the largest emergency appeal in history to cope with the civil war crisis.

Italian politicians today elected centre-left leaders for both chambers of Parliament, paving the way for difficult talks to form a new government to get started.

The United Nations refugee agency and other aid groups are appealing for almost $490m (€380m) to help Syrians who have fled the conflict in their country.

The Junior Foreign Affairs Minister Joe Costello is travelling to Jordan today to assess the humanitarian situation at the country's border with Syria.

Refugees are fleeing Syria in ever greater numbers, UN agencies said yesterday, as the conflict between President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and rebels intensifies.

The heads of three UN agencies are appealing for urgent funds to deal with the growing humanitarian crisis in Africa’s Sahel region.

ALMOST 2,000 people arrived by boat on the Italian island of Lampedusa from Libya and Tunisia over the weekend, the UN refugee agency has said.

Almost 2,000 people arrived by boat on the Italian island of Lampedusa from Libya and Tunisia over the weekend, the UN refugee agency has said.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Ireland, Sophie Magennis, has said the international community has a huge amount of work to do to protect refugees.

UN envoy Angelina Jolie travelled to Turkey’s border with Syria today, sharing fruit and desserts with some of the thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled their government’s bloody crackdown.

Angelina Jolie has arrived at Turkey’s border with Syria to meet some of the thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled their government’s bloody crackdown on dissent.

Angelina Jolie wants to visit Syrian refugees who have fled violence and are camped out on the Turkish side of the border, Turkey said today.

The Libyan regime has been accused of deliberately pushing African migrants to board unsafe refugee boats bound for Europe.

The UN refugee agency has urged European countries to do more to rescue people fleeing the violence in Libya and dying by hundreds in overloaded boats that capsize in the Mediterranean.

Up to one million people have fled their homes in the Ivory Coast capital Abidjan fearful that post-election unrest will explode into all-out war, the UN refugee agency says.

Italy has warned it faces a humanitarian crisis with some 1,600 refugees from Tunisia arriving in its waters over the past two weeks following unrest there.

PAKISTAN battled to contain flooding in its rich agricultural south yesterday, evacuating half a million people from risk areas as the UN warned of the “daunting” scale of the crisis.

Claims by Iraqi asylum seekers that they were mistreated by British officials before being deported back to Iraq are to be investigated by the UN refugee agency.

UZBEKISTAN yesterday ordered its frontier closed to a mass exodus of refugees fleeing clashes between rival groups in Kyrgyzstan where government forces were accused of helping the slaughter of ethnic Uzbeks.

Several thousand Ghanaians fleeing ethnic strife in the country's north have crossed the border into Togo in recent days, the United Nations said.

The UN refugee agency today said it is braced for a mass flight to neighbouring countries by civilians seeking to escape violence in Somalia.

BRAD PITT and Angelina Jolie are suing over a report that their relationship has hit the rocks.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are suing over a report that their relationship has hit the rocks.

FRANCE yesterday defended its decision to close a makeshift migrant camp known as “The Jungle” as the UN refugee body warned it had a duty towards people fleeing the world’s war zones.

THE UN refugee agency says 16 African migrants died and another 49 are missing presumed dead after trying to cross the Gulf of Aden in three boats.

The UN refugee agency says 16 African migrants have died and another 49 are missing and presumed dead after trying to cross the Gulf of Aden in three boats.

UN aid agencies today called on the government of Yemen and rebels to ensure humanitarian access to civilians caught up in fighting that flared up in the north last month.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated $1m (€715,000) to the UN refugee agency providing aid to hundreds of thousands uprooted by violence in Pakistan.

Suicide attackers shot their way past guards and set off a massive blast outside a luxury hotel, popular with foreigners and affluent Pakistanis, last night, killing at least 11 people and wounding 70, including a British aid worker.

TALIBAN fighters are shaving off their beards and trying to flee from a Pakistani army offensive in their Swat bastion, the military said, as it relaxed a curfew to allow civilians leave.

WHILE global leaders struggled in London to agree on policies that would let each do their own thing, Bill Clinton had a simple message for the alternative globalisation event in Brussels: “Just do it.”

Gunmen kidnapped an American UN official and killed his driver in southwest Pakistan today, underscoring the security threat in a country wracked by al-Qaida violence and rising criminalit