The two imprisoned American journalists were trying to tell an important story.

The tribesmen's long-delayed return to Waziristan is significant because their successful resettlement will do more to re-establish stability and deny the Taliban a safe haven in the agency than any military operation could.

Maurice Roumani has created a masterful account of the last decades of the vanished community of Libyan Jews.

Under international law, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has a mandate to protect refugees. Every state party to the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees is also obliged to guarantee basic economic freedoms and freedom of movement to refugees within their borders. Non-refoulement--the right not to...

Ellen Sauerbreyhas the necessary ambition, attitude, and experience to act as assistant secretary of state for Population, Refugees, and Migration.

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For a bankrupt country in the middle of hyperinflation, the discovery of a major diamond deposit in Zimbabwe in June 2006 should have been good news. Instead it has provided sustenance to a volatile and violent political elite that suppresses the majority. The power sharing/coalition government in Zimbabwe came into...

How would an underground railroad help North Korea and its citizens?

Typically regarded as the paragon of humanitarianism, refugee camps are in fact one of the biggest stains on the conscience of the international community.