"Famille au grand cœur," an association run by a group of refugees and asylum seekers, is setting up in Montpellier in the south of France. The collective aims to offer welcome and support to young new arrivals who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
For the first time, a pope is visiting Iraq. But wars and terrorist attacks have long since driven most Christians out of the country. Some Iraqi Catholics will be following the pope’s journey from Germany.
According to a new UN report, gays who come out in Iran do so at their own peril. Their only recourse is often political asylum.
The Kurdish community in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region says that the numbers of suicides are increasing, particularly in refugee camps full of Kurdish Yazidis.
"Temple of Refuge" illustrates Iraqi-Kurdish migrant Sartep Namiq's journey to Berlin. It was commissioned with the help of a unique organization.
A new document by the German government highlights strengths and weaknesses in ongoing EU efforts to evacuate migrants and refugees stranded in Libya. It focused in particular on recent initiatives to move migrants to Rwanda and Niger.
More than 130 members of Iraq’s Yazidi community have been flown to Toulouse to be resettled in France. The families include women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Islamic State group.
Political decisions, persecution and economic conditions force Afghan refugees in different regions across the globe to return home, despite serious security and economic challenges in Afghanistan. InfoMigrants takes a closer look.
Syrian writer Rabab Haidar had to flee her homeland because she resisted President Assad. She has now found refuge at the Heinrich Böll House in Germany. For World Poetry Day, we look into her story.
Many Afghan journalists and filmmakers have been targeted and killed by Taliban, Masih T. says. The 30-year-old Afghan came to Germany as a refugee in 2015 and has found safety and independence.
Saudi women who have fled to Germany to request asylum continue to live under threat from their families. DW spoke with four such women and human rights experts who suspect the Saudi Embassy's involvement.
The federal ministry of the interior has passed a state-level reception program that will welcome traumatized Yazidis from Iraq who were persecuted by the "Islamic State."