International Rescue Committee

Humanitarian organizations are working to help Ukrainians affected by the Russian invasion.

Amanda Gorman is ending her extraordinary year on a note of hope.

International flags flutter from the ceilings of the outdoor hallways at Valencia Newcomer School, where more than 200 children from around the world are learning English skills and American classroom customs they need to succeed. When the school year begins, the refugee and immigrant children often don’t know the rules. A kid might be fascinated with a light switch they...

Lizbeth Garcia tended to her 3-year-old son outside a tent pitched on a sidewalk, their temporary home while they wait for their number to be called to claim asylum in the United States. The 33-year-old fled Mexico’s western state of Michoacán a few weeks ago with her husband and five children — ages 3 to 12 — when her husband,...

The Trump administration said Thursday that Somalis granted special immigration status in the U.S. can keep the designation, making them one of the few groups permitted to stay in the U.S. under a program that has allowed them to remain here for years. Somalia was first designated for the special status in 1991, following the collapse of the authoritarian Siad...

Little Ruya Kadir had sparkling eyes, a few basic belongings and not much else when she arrived in Boise, Idaho more than two years ago. But at just six months old, she had the most important thing: A mother who loved her so fiercely that she left behind her homeland, her husband and everything she knew so Ruya would grow...

In her first visit to civil war-torn South Sudan, actress Ashley Judd had a message for survivors of sexual assault in a country where rape is a widespread weapon. “I see you, I love you and I’m here for you,” she said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Ali Said fled war-torn Somalia two decades ago after his right leg was blown off by a grenade. Last year, the father of seven was shot in his other leg by robbers while living in a Kenyan refugee camp. Said rolled his wheelchair up to a desk in an office hours after arriving in California from Kenya, saying he felt...

World Refugee Day is Tuesday, making it a good opportunity to consider the millions of people who are forcibly displaced from their homes around the world. Aside from plans for rallies on Trump Tower and the United Nations headquarters in New York City, people around the world are marking the day with cultural celebrations, corporate fundraisers or political demonstrations of...

Mandy Patinkin knows that his show “Homeland” hasn’t always shown Muslims in the best light — but he says that is changing with the award-winning show’s sixth season.

Ashley Judd recited a spoken-word poem written by Nina, a 19-year-old woman in Tennessee, at the Women’s March in Washington, DC, on Jan. 21.

A Dallas preparatory school for boys denounced actions by one of its graduates. On Friday, St. Mark’s School of Texas released a statement rejecting “racism and bigotry in all of its forms and expressions.” The message did not name the graduate but referenced a video of the alumnus leading “white nationalist meeting in Washington, D.C.” White nationalist Richard Spencer, an...

Lena Headey went to Lesbos, the island at the heart of Europe’s refugee crisis.

NFL star J.J. Watt and Jimmy Fallon play to win at egg Russian roulette. The loser will leave with two raw eggs on their face.

Some Syrian refugees arrived in Texas Monday after the state eased up in its legal fight against resettlement agencies and the federal government.

The U.S. government and an international humanitarian organization on Friday asked a judge to reject attempts by Texas to block Syrian refugees from resettling in the state, and revealed that the number expected to arrive in the state within a week has more than doubled.