Myanmar (Burma)

• Bangladesh
• Burkina Faso
• Myanmar (Burma)

The UN refugee agency UNHCR has launched a new data visualization showing how climate change is contributing to drive new displacement and increase the vulnerability of those already forced to flee.

• Bangladesh
• Ethiopia
• Myanmar (Burma)

To mark World Refugee Day this June, the UNHCR is encouraging people around the world to count the steps they walk, run and cycle and register on a website. The aim? To cover the distance that refugees are forced to walk every year in order to reach safety. The campaign aims to honor the efforts families make to survive, the UNHCR says.

• Afghanistan
• Iraq
• Myanmar (Burma)

Women and girls account for 70 percent of global human trafficking victims, according to a United Nations report. Most victims are trafficked for sexual exploitation, with the report warning of "vast areas of impunity."

• Congo - Kinshasa
• Myanmar (Burma)

In 2016 the UN refugee agency began developing a new framework for responding to large movements of refugees. The Global Compact on Refugees will be delivered to the UN general assembly later this year.

• Bangladesh
• Italy
• Libya

Hundreds of thousands of people belonging to the Muslim Rohingya community have fled to Bangladesh after being pushed out by local ethnic groups in Myanmar. Could the crisis spill over to Europe?

• Italy
• Myanmar (Burma)

The charity MOAS, which has rescued some 40,000 migrants over the past three years, is to end its current operations off the Libyan coast. Instead it will take aid to the Rohingya who have fled violence in Myanmar.

• Afghanistan
• Myanmar (Burma)
• Syria

Russia and European leaders clash at the UN following the gas attack in Syria. Afghan asylum seekers are being sent back to their country and Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has denied that Rohingya Muslims are being racially targeted. This and more in today's news summary.

• Libya
• Myanmar (Burma)

  From the EU summit's decisions in Malta to the UN's warning about Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Here's a list of news on migrants that made it to the headlines today: