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Hutu refugee women and children wait to be registered at Kigali airport Rwanda, after they arrived on the UN plane from Kisangai, Zaire Sunday, May 4, 1997. Funding cuts to refugees living in Rwanda is threatening the right to education for children in more than 100,000 households who have fled conflict from different East African countries to live in five camps. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim, File)

Refugee children’s education in Rwanda under threat because of reduced U.N. funding

By Ignatius Ssuuna - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, talks with China's Vice Chairman of the standing committee of the country’s National People’s Congress Li Hongzhong, fourth right, as they and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, sixth right, attend a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the armistice that halted fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War, on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea Thursday, July 27, 2023. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Forced deportation, brutal punishment await North Korea’s defectors in China

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

FILE - Smoke rises over Khartoum, Sudan, on June 8, 2023, as fighting between the Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces continues. A leading human rights group said on Thursday Aug. 3, 2023 Sudan's warring parties have committed “extensive war crimes” including mass killings of civilians, rape and sexual slavery of women in the ongoing conflict. (AP Photo, File)

The monthslong conflict in Sudan has displaced over 4 million people, a U.N. official says

By Jack Jeffery - Associated Press

Ukrainian refugees wait in a gymnasium, April 5, 2022, in Tijuana, Mexico. Some 110 million people around the world have had to flee their homes because of conflict, persecution, or human rights violations, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees says. Last year alone, an additional 19 million people were forcibly displaced including more than 11 million who fled Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in what became the fastest and largest displacement of people since World War II. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

110 million people forcibly displaced as Sudan, Ukraine wars add to world refugee crisis, U.N. says

By Renata Brito - Associated Press

Cate Blanchett arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

The meaning behind the blue ribbons worn at the Oscars

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Refugees from Ukraine stay inside a vast accommodation center set up at the Global EXPO exhibition hall in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. The United Nations’ refugee agency says that more than 5 million people have now fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24. The Geneva-based U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, put the total number of refugees at 5.01 million. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Ukraine war refugees top 5 million as assault intensifies

By Monika Scislowska and Rafal Niedzielski - Associated Press

A small girl looks at her stuffed bear toy as she walks with others fleeing the war from neighbouring Ukraine at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. The daily number of people fleeing Ukraine has fallen in recent days, but border guards, aid agencies and refugees say Russia's unpredictable war offers few signs whether it's just a temporary lull or a permanent drop-off. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

4 million refugees have now fled Ukraine, U.N. agency says

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Asylum seekers wait for news of policy changes at the border, Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. After waiting months and sometimes years in Mexico, people seeking asylum in the United States are being allowed into the country starting Friday as they wait for courts to decide on their cases, unwinding one of the Trump administration's signature immigration policies that President Joe Biden vowed to end. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Asylum seekers rush to register for US border processing

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Groups seek to stop Malaysia from deporting Myanmar migrants

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UN agency seeks help to find Rohingya boat adrift at sea

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In this handout photo released on Sunday, April 5, 2020 by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency shows a wooden boat carrying suspected Rohingya migrants detained in Malaysian territorial waters off the island of Langkawi, Malaysia. Malaysian authorities said they have arrested a boatload of 202 people believed to be minority Muslim Rohingya refugees after their boat was found adrift Sunday morning near the northern resort island of Langkawi. (Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency via AP)

Bangladesh rescues 396 Rohingya drifting at sea for weeks

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

In this Sept. 23, 2019, file photo, rescued migrants look at a map of Europe aboard the Ocean Viking humanitarian ship as it sails in the Mediterranean Sea. The misery of migrants in Libya has spawned a thriving and highly lucrative business, in part funded by the EU and enabled by the United Nations, an Associated Press investigation has found. (AP Photo/Renata Brito)

EU funds for migrants in Libya enrich their abusers instead

By Maggie Michael, Lori Hinnant and Renata Brito - Associated Press

UN Libya migrant center plagued with crowding, TB, food cuts

By LORI HINNANT and MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

UN tries to cut numbers at EU-funded migrant center in Libya

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, May 23, 2015 file photo, refugees who fled Burundi's violence and political tension wait to board a UN ship, at Kagunga on Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania, to be taken to the port city of Kigoma. The United Nations refugee agency is urging the governments of Tanzania and Burundi not to forcibly repatriate Burundian refugees sheltering in Tanzania, after Tanzanian authorities said Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019, that they had reached an agreement with Burundi to send all Burundian refugees back home from Oct. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

UN opposes forced repatriation of refugees to Burundi

By SYLIVESTER DOMASA - Associated Press

In this April 19, 2019, file photo provided by the United Nations, Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, addresses the media at United Nations headquarters. The United Nations refugee agency says a record 71 million people have now been displaced worldwide from war, persecution and other violence. (Eskinder Debebe/The United Nations via AP)

U.N.: Nearly 71 million now displaced by war, violence at home

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 14, 2019 file photo, Venezuelans cross illegally into Colombia near the Simon Bolivar International Bridge, close to Cucuta, Colombia. The U.N. refugee agency said Friday, June 7, that the number of Venezuelans who have left their country in recent years has surpassed 4 million. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

UN: Venezuela exodus grows, Angelina Jolie to visit region

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

UN says 29 children die fleeing Syria fighting last 2 months

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Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, right, walks with an unidentified companion in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. Alqunun, the 18-year old Saudi woman who fled her family to seek asylum, remains in Thailand under the care of the U.N. refugee agency as she awaits a decision by a third country to accept her as a refugee. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Woman who fled Saudi Arabia reaches her new home in Canada

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press