Refugees, Displaced People And Migrants

Migrants’ rights are human rights - 18 December 2007

One person in every 35 lives outside the country in which they were born. Many of those are migrant workers or their family members.

Thai authorities endanger asylum seekers' safety - 20 June 2007

Over 160 Lao Hmong people were returned to their home country from Thailand on Saturday 9 June.

Iraqis flee to Syria to escape violence - 19 June 2007

"We don’t have a home to go to, they took it from us; we have nothing left in Iraq to go to." With these words, Um ‘Omar explained why she and he

Palestinian villagers' homes under threat - 30 July 2007

The Israeli army is threatening to destroy the homes of Palestinian villagers in the Jordan Valley region of the West Bank.

Blood Diamonds are still a reality - 23 January 2007

Conflict or blood diamonds fuel conflict, civil wars and human rights abuses.

The missing children of Laos - 22 March 2007

The Lao government claims to have "found" 21 girls and young women who have been missing since December 2005 when they were deported from Thailand.

UK to sign Council of Europe trafficking convention - 24 January 2007

AI is campaigning to see this happen by the end of this year - so far three countries (Austria, Moldova and Romania) have ratified the Convention and 31 states have

Russia extradites, Uzbekistan abuses - 6 August 2007

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, co-operation between former members, Russia and Uzbekistan, has been increasingly influenced by concerns about regional secur

Palestinian refugees targeted in Iraq - 1 October 2007

Scores of Palestinian refugees in Iraq have been killed since the US-led invasion in 2003.