Migrants disillusioned with French asylum process return to Calais
"We know it is dangerous, but we have no other possibility because France is not giving answers on asylum requests so people come back here" - Ahmad, 17
An elderly Afghan man harvests wheat on the outskirts of Kabul
An elderly Afghan man harvests wheat on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan June 29, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail
Asylum requests dip slightly after 2015 record, OECD says
Number of people fleeing war or strife for stabler parts of the world fell marginally in 2016 from a record high in 2015
Hospital's prosthetics deliver limbs and new life in South Sudan
The hospital is in high demand in a country born of war that remains littered with mines and explosive devices, with civil war still raging
U.N. states agree $7.3 bln peacekeeping budget, U.S. share cut 7.5 pct
U.N. chief Antonio Guterres has pledged to make UN peacekeeping more efficient
It’s time to stop ignoring conflict in efforts to build resilience
Many climate change adaptation and development efforts work in unstable countries - and that reality needs to be taken into account
U.S. brands China as among worst human trafficking offenders
The agency's 2017 report on human trafficking upgraded the statuses of Myanmar, Afghanistan, Malaysia and Qatar
EXCLUSIVE-U.S. list to drop Iraq, Myanmar as worst offenders on child soldiers
Foreign militaries on the list can face sanctions including a prohibition on receiving U.S. military aid, training and U.S.-made weapons
Amid criticism from rights group, France talks tough on Calais migrants
"We can't set up another reception centre in Calais because it would reproduce what happened before; you go from a few hundred to a few thousand migrants"
Afghan women refugees resurrected as India's plastic waste warriors
How to address India's chronic waste problem and empower refugee women who often flounder in their adopted homelands