Every year, thousands of Rohingya attempt to flee Myanmar and Bangladesh by sea. The escape effort kills hundreds of people per year.

The wrinkled limestone karst landscape of the Thai-Burmese border is home to around 130,000 Burmese refugees. Many who fled decades of ethnic conflict have lost their lands, families and livelihoods, ...

MAE SARIANG, Thailand, January 29 (UNHCR) - One of the world's largest resettlement programmes recently came to an end in Thailand when UNHCR received the final expressions of interest from eligible ...

As refugees from Myanmar and violence-hit Manipur seek shelter in Mizoram, India confronts a growing humanitarian challenge without a formal protection framework ...

BAN MAE NAI SOI, Thailand, January 8 (UNHCR) - While the other 4,000 families in this refugee camp in north-west Thailand do their daily cooking over wasteful wood fires, David Saw Wah's family cooks ...

Wah K'Ler Paw was just 30 when she died from renal failure in a remote Thai refugee camp near the Myanmar border. Her death was preventable, but the Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid ...

The United Nations and Human Rights Watch have joined others to laud Thailand for enabling long-term refugees from Myanmar to work legally in the country. The decision could impact the lives of more ...

Authorities in Mizoram's 11 districts have so far completed biometric enrolment of over 97 per cent of the approximately 28,355 Myanmar refugees, including women and children, who took shelter in the ...

When he came to Iowa from Myanmar, one of thousands of Burmese refugees to settle in the midwestern state, Way Moo hoped for the chance to start a new life. But since he moved there in 2007, he ...