Human Rights Watch’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Division defends the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, displaced people, and migrants worldwide. We investigate rights violations arising from ...

A woman from Hounslow, west London, says a council has left her family in a "severely overcrowded" property, where her terminally ill stepfather is "forced to sleep on the floor". Irina's parents ...

The UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) states that there were over 100 million forcibly displaced people worldwide in 2023 – a figure that has tripled over the last 10 years. For host countries ...

That’s why, each year, millions of people leave home in search of a safer, better tomorrow. Asylum seekers, migrants, immigrants and refugees are all terms used to describe people on the move, ...