All refugees deserve compassion.

Many of those moved into an asylum return centre have held jobs for years and can speak the language ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, January 12 (UNHCR) - As a Swedish parliamentarian, Hanif Bali is particularly interested in the welfare of unaccompanied refugee children in his adopted homeland. It's an issue that ...

Refugee's register their names as they arrive to Stockholm central mosque on October 15, 2015 after many hours bus journey from the southern city of Malmo. Since September, Islamic Relief Sweden ...

An Eritrean refugee, who was convicted of raping a then-16-year-old girl, was allowed to stay in Sweden after a Swedish court ruled that he would not be deported after serving his sentence due to the ...

AMMAN, Jordan, Dec 10 (UNHCR) - For more than a year and a half, they had lived under tents in the inhospitable desert of the no man's land between Jordan and Iraq. In the early hours of Thursday, ...

Sweden has issued an ultimatum to Afghan refugees, warning criminal elements to leave the country and urging the EU to adopt ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 15, 2007 — -- One of the more unfortunate byproducts of the Iraq War is the massive exodus of refugees. In what may be the biggest refugee crisis since 1948, more than 2 ...

Across Europe, ethnic tensions have been on the rise. And this morning, we're zooming in on one country, Sweden. For decades, it had a virtual open-door policy for asylum-seekers and refugees. But now ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Sweden, which has welcomed far more Iraqi refugees than has the United States or the rest of Europe, said Friday that it is tightening its asylum rules and will forcibly deport ...