Human Rights Watch’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Division defends the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, displaced people, and migrants worldwide. We investigate rights violations arising from ...

A migrant accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a Florida field had applied for asylum just one day before the alleged attack, the local sheriff said. The Volusia Sheriff's Office (VSO ...

An asylum seeker has allegedly raped a 10-year-old girl and got her pregnant in a controversial migrant centre in Italy. The 28-year-old man from Bangladesh is accused of raping the young girl at ...

Just try and spend the 48 minutes it takes to get through 60,000 square feet of space inside Eloise Asylum, a haunted house in Westland — when that cold October night hits your face, you’ll be ...

DANVERS, MA — More than 100 Danvers middle and high school students, summer art campers, and student actors helped transform the Danvers Art Association into an Abandoned Art Asylum Haunted ...

That’s why, each year, millions of people leave home in search of a safer, better tomorrow. Asylum seekers, migrants, immigrants and refugees are all terms used to describe people on the move, ...

If you are a young refugee, asylum seeker or vulnerable migrant aged 15 to 25, you may be able to get help from the British Red Cross. The Red Cross offers a range of services for young refugees and ...

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s president on Wednesday condemned the government’s contentious plan to suspend the right to asylum for irregular migrants, calling it a “fatal mistake.” ...

More than 62,000 migrants could be granted asylum in the UK as the Government attempts to clear the backlog of claims waiting to be dealt with. The Refugee Council estimates the number of asylum ...

As administrations of both parties have failed to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, a reckoning for the asylum system, which some say is overdue, seems inevitable. By Jazmine Ulloa and ...

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Monday defended a plan to temporarily suspend the right to asylum as human rights and civil society organizations express concerns about the move.

TIRANA, Albania — Albania’s prime minister on Tuesday said his government had turned down many requests from other European Union countries to take in thousands of asylum seekers but made an ...