Afghan refugees appealed to Pakistan and the U.N. for more support at a conference, hoping to return home after four decades of fleeing wars and conflict.
Afghan refugees appealed to Pakistan and the United Nations for more support at an international conference that ended on Tuesday, hoping to return home after four decades of forcibly living abroad fleeing wars and conflict.
Pakistan's government and the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, convened a two-day ministerial-level conference in Islamabad to mark 40 years of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan — and to remind the world of their plight.
Beyond official narratives and statistics are the complex realities and unexpected agency of displaced populations.
The U.N. refugee agency's loss of thousands of staff mirrors other Geneva-based agencies heavily reliant on U.S. funding.
The U.N. refugee agency says the people under its care more than doubled in a decade, reaching 36.8 million by last year.
U.N. leaders hailed Pope Francis as a champion of the environment and tireless advocate of refugees and migrants.
Despite blocking IAEA inspectors from tracking uranium enrichment, Tehran says diplomatic channels remain open.
Leaders pushed for better financial systems at only the fourth U.N. conference on development financing held since 2002.
Beyond official narratives and statistics are the complex realities and unexpected agency of displaced populations.
Urgent early warning systems and urban heat protections are needed with extreme heat events becoming more frequent.
