The sprawling Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya's northwest houses more than 180,000 people. One of them is Annett Poni, a disabled woman from South Sudan. With little hope of returning home any time soon, she decided to launch her own restaurant to support her family and create opportunities for other refugees.
Horrific sanitary conditions, lack of food, and police beatings: just some of the conditions migrants in Greek camps are subjected to, according to a new report. The situation for children is particularly precarious.
An Iranian refugee won Australia's most prestigious literary prize for a book he wrote on his mobile phone. The author, Behrouz Boochani, is however detained in Papua New Guinea and not allowed in Australia.
Controversy is swirling in Italy over the closure of the CARA refugee center in Castelnuovo di Porto, just north of Rome, as well as the eventual transfer of the nearly 500 migrants currently housed at the structure.
More than 500 migrants have been forcibly removed from Italy's second-largest refugee center. Italy's populist government claims it is "helping Italians," but the town complains that years of hard work are being ruined.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees in camps in Iraq remain in an 'acute' situation, according to the aid group CARE International. The organization's Iraq representative has warned the international community not to lose sight of the problem.
Around 250 unaccompanied minors are camped out in freezing temperatures on the northern coast of France. Living on the streets without proper access to food, they have reportedly endured regular attacks by police.
A group of activists from Switzerland visited western Bosnia in late December to provide assistance to thousands of refugees and migrants trying to enter the EU-member state Croatia from there. The conditions they live in in Bosnia are far from good, says activist Stefan Dietrich.
Although Jordan is known for its pleasant weather, the winter season can be very harsh, with temperatures below zero. The Norwegian Refugee Council is on the ground in Azraq camp in central-eastern Jordan to help Syrian refugees prepare for the freezing cold.
The already inhumane conditions in migration hotspots on Greek islands have been worsening for months. Here's what options exist to ameliorate the situation — and why they don't seem to take.
Over one million Syrian refugees are currently believed to be living in the small kingdom of Jordan. They fled their country's raging war that started seven years ago. In the past few months, some have returned to Syria. But for many that's not an option.
Hundreds of migrants and refugees, mainly from Afghanistan and Africa, are stuck on Chios island in the Northern Aegean Sea. Local authorities want to close the refugee camp.