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Bangkok, Thailand – “I’ve never experienced cold like this,” says RK, a 19-year-old Somali refugee, as he sits in a downtown Bangkok alley one December morning. It is 20 degrees ...
BANGKOK, Thailand, July 9 (UNHCR) - Bhumika Dhakal, a tall, capable 12-year-old Nepalese refugee girl was sweeping the floor and looking after her three younger sisters when police knocked on the door ...
In Bangkok, it takes an average of three to four years to complete the resettlement process, leaving many refugees vulnerable and frustrated. “We’d love to live here, it’s like the Middle East.
The U.N. agency has more than 60 staffers in Bangkok working to verify thousands of asylum-seekers’ stories and determine whether they are refugees with well-founded fears of persecution ...
His wife, Uma, and youngest son share a cell at Bangkok's International Detention ... ago after receiving their official United Nations refugee status. It's been 18 months since Rajeevan's family ...
His family went to Thailand, the closest country where they could easily get visas, but overstayed their visas as they sought refugee status at Bangkok’s office of the United Nations High ...
According to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign there are about 350 Palestinian refugees currently living in Bangkok. Most of them, such as Tamim and his family, are second-time refugees who fled ...
The first group of refugees from Myanmar living in Thailand and eligible for a new resettlement program flew out of Bangkok for the United States last week, more than a year after the plan was ...
This Sept 5, 2023 file photo shows refugees visiting the Asia-Pacific headquarters of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Bangkok to apply for asylum. (Photo: Pastor Pan Yongguang) Please ...
BANGKOK, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Healthcare centres serving tens of thousands of refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border have been ordered shut after U.S. President Donald Trump froze most foreign aid last ...