The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Dr. Tony Ojukwu, SAN has stressed the need for improved disaster preparedness and protection for Internally Displaced Persons ...

The overall flood situation in Assam and other northeastern states remained grim on Tuesday, as the death toll in seven states of the region climbed to 44, officials said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday began opening disaster centers on the South Texas border to help residents affected by flooding nearly two months ago.

There are practical challenges in implementing sustainable drainage systems in refugee camps, such as limited resources to set them up. However, an initial investment will reduce flood damage and ...

In the biggest single-day refugee influx of the two-week U.S.-led air assault on Afghanistan, an estimated 5,000 people -- most of them ragged, frightened and bringing with them o ...

She found that IRIS received a flood of interest from faith-based groups and ethnic community organizations eager to help Syrian refugees. And so, to meet that demand, IRIS began to look at how it ...

SHANGHAI -- Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, known internationally as RedNote, is scrambling to hire English-language content moderators as a potential U.S. ban on TikTok starting Sunday has ...

US TikTok users are flooding to a popular Chinese social media app ahead of America's looming ban, using the hashtag #TikTokrefugees. RedNote, which is similar to Instagram, has quickly become the ...

Nov. 2—Flood refugees from harder hit counties have relocated to Haywood County, which in turn has led to a bump in student enrollment in Haywood County Schools. As of last week, 48 new students ...

Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro is moving quickly to transform his regime into a more brutal dictatorship that in all likelihood will trigger a flood of refugees that will cause havoc in ...

Rescue workers are still pulling out bodies from the rubble in northern Gaza - a day after Israeli strikes killed at least 50 Palestinians. A pregnant shark was tagged and monitored for 5 months ...

That dream washed away when we became flood refugees. In 2013, the Bow River burst its banks and wiped out the resort community of Hidden Valley, Alta., including the cabin Hermanson hoped to ...