
Global vows to millions of migrants and refugees still largely unfulfilled
Most of the world's 8 billion inhabitants prefer to stay within their nation of birth, but almost 1-in-20 have left that behind.
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Most of the world's 8 billion inhabitants prefer to stay within their nation of birth, but almost 1-in-20 have left that behind.
New estimates show 49.6 million people, or nearly 1-in-150 worldwide, trapped in modern slavery - up 23% in five years.
Six countries and the U.N. opened the first Global Refugee Forum to help poor nations overwhelmed by taking in people fleeing for safety across borders.
Refugees International gave the Trump administration's U.S. practices a 'failing grade' for a second year in a row.
A warning that sovereignty and national borders are being invoked to prevent human rights issues from being addressed.
U.N. leaders used the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons to call for increased prevention against a web of factors.
The number of refugees, internally displaced people and asylum-seekers rose by 2.3 million from 2017. And over the past two decades, the number has doubled.
The Trump administration's broadsides embolden nations with poor rights records and encourage attacks on journalists.
Huge security threats loom from the crisis in Yemen to Afghanistan's fighting to the U.S.-China trade war.
The non-binding deal tries to solve some of the polarizing but age-old issues surrounding people crossing borders.
The effort accompanied a similar pact for migration that the U.N. General Assembly also approved this month.
Judges ruled sanctions reinstated by the Trump administration breached a treaty between Iran and the U.S.
At the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. president attacked the world body as a largely useless "global bureaucracy."
Trump's national security adviser harshly condemned the International Criminal Court, which is hated by conservatives.
A new global pact for promoting safe migration is advancing at the U.N. without the participation of the U.S. and Hungary.
After calling NATO obsolete, Trump suggested America might not defend others and demanded more defense spending.