Canada’s immigration department has expressed deep concern over reports that Tajikistan may deport Afghan refugees awaiting resettlement, urging urgent international action to ensure their safety and protection.
ISLAMABAD — Reintegrating Afghan refugees is critical to the country’s peaceful future as social cohesion will be reduced without it, a U.N ... Some 2.2 million Afghans have crossed the ... refugee agency.
Revived in late 2023, the policy has triggered a nationwide crackdown on undocumented Afghan refugees ... Afghan refugees have long contributed to informal labor markets in Balochistan and Khyber ...
UNHCR has voiced serious concern over Pakistan's decision to deport Afghan refugees who have temporary residence permits and demanded protection of vulnerable people, leading Afghan news agency Khaama Press reported.
UNHCR has urged Pakistan to stop deporting vulnerable Afghan refugees, warning that forced returns, especially of women, girls, and the ill, could violate basic human rights and protections.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan extended the deadline for the deportation of millions of Afghan refugees to Sept ... Afghans have fled to Pakistan over the past four decades to escape war, political instability and economic hardship in their homeland.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, is calling for Pakistan to halt the forcible return of Afghan refugees holding proof of registration (PoR) cards, Spokesperson Babor Baloch said on Tuesday in Geneva....
Pakistan has started to deport documented Afghan refugees ahead of its deadline for them to leave, according to the United Nations, in a move that could see more than one million Afghans expelled from the country.